Chris Wallace: Obama not appearing on Fox News because of "pettiness" and "childishness"
September 19, 2009 10:13 am ET
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Chris Wallace, Univision has a better News Organization than Fox, excuse the Imposition.
Mr. Wallace try doing a "Expose'" on Fox News, it would be like a light bulb went off in your Big Head.
Oh Chris, I'm so sorry you're the last one to find out that at Fox News Jounalistic Integrity is Dead.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
Pathetic.
Chris Wallace, You all but got down on your Hands & Knees & Licked Dick Cheney's Boots, Was it Tacky?
Chris, You and Dick Cheney looked more like a love affair than an Interview.
What did your Father say after that interview Chris? Good Job or "Son, You and I are Through"
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
The whole country was infatuated with this guy just as people were with Arnold in California. He has a track record of being very liberal on voting. No one seems to care what he is or stands for all they care is he is a good speaker and seems to hypnotize the public.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i6cOT9BIDk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gUNUh6cCKU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5jMatAmLlg&feature=related
"He has NEVER been asked tough questions about his policies"
Major Garret had his chance as recently as July 7th.
The facts are Fock Snooze continues to employ the same person that called Obama a racist who hates white people. Fock Snooze has willfully provided a platform for numerous people who do nothing other than call Obama a Nazi, a fascist, a thug, a despot, a dictator, a communist, a socialist, a Muslim, a Kenyan, and the reincarnation of Hitler, Chavez, Mussolini and Zedong.
If Fock Snooze is unwilling to offer professional courtesy or respect toward our president when they are not asking the tough questions, why should Obama waste any time with the lowest-rated Sunday morning show?
It was San Fran Nan who called the protesters un-american & started all of this name calling...get you facts straight...
Please, rugger69, ask a "tough" question here.... I want to here what you thing he's ducking....
Then Friday they installed a measure to verify that - so you were wrong and needed to correct it
The facts are the democrats have constantly voted against the E-Verify system to determine if a person is here legally or illegally.
The illegal population may pay into the system as a temporary worker but that is the price they pay to work in this country. Then they take far more out of it them they pay into.
And there was language in the proposed bill to handle that. There's a Commissioner, and he would have decided how to do it. In fact, he still will.
On Friday, to shut up no-nothings, they did add a provision to codify that enforcement. It's not because they HAD to - it's because no-nothings like you thought that without it, the enforcement wouldn't be done. They did it to make you and your ilk happy.
And illegal immigrants don't take out far more than they put in. That's been disproven. Now, local communities get less than they put out, but when you look at the full spectrum of taxes and fees they pay, the Feds are in the positive column (and therefore, we all are) because of significant Social Security taxes paid by immigrants who will never get Disability or retirement benefits.
Californian voted to cut off all funding to illegal aliens yet the ACLU and other fought it and now we are in this mess. There is nothing in the constitution saying we have to but the lawyers and judges who want to corrupt this country fell we have to.
I sure don't see people getting into home made rafts and floating to Cuba, Vietnam, China or any of these other third world countries every one wnats to come here.
Like my grandfather who had to have a skill this country needed in order to be allowed through Ellis Island. Unfortunately I don't feel picking fruit or vegetables is a skill, sounds to me like the college kids could use some intern work for the summer.
I though kids in areas with farms received time off to help with the harvest season, use that in college make these kids know hard work and maybe they will appreciate their lives more and not material things.
I said that local communities are worse off! Illegal immigrants pay more in that they get back. That's indisputable. The Feds have a net positive and state and local govts have a net negative. How come I'm having to repeat this for you?
Our nation has had a steady stream of immigrants throughout our history to do the dirty jobs that no one else wants to do, jobs that don't require a good working knowledge of English. We don't have that same stream without illegal immigrants. Immigrants didn't have to have a skill to get into our nation, for the most part - they simply had to prove they weren't diseased. You can pretend that we don't need those workers, but I doubt our nation can afford to pay college kids to do that work (and what do we do when they go back to school but the work needs to be done?). That is an unworkable solution.
So you're answer is yet another government program? Or mandated national citizen ID cards? Do you really want a government takeover of ID cards? Big gov't is ok when it does your bidding. Just like activist judges.
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Why would you have a self proclaimed communist on you advisory board?
Why would some one who believes animals should have a right to legal consul have a place on you advisory board?
Why nominate a person to the supreme court who has been overturned so many times?
The same person calls for the legal system to write laws instead of interpreting them?
The facts show that your version here is not reflective of what actually happened. Yeah, the prof likely got too irate, but he was being harassed in his own home. The cop had the responsibility to recognize that and back off. Instead, he demanded that the prof go outside his door solely so he could arrest him for disturbing the peace - he could have gone out, left the professor in the house, and continued to communicate with him. It's clear from the evidence that the cop behaved stupidly.
Why would you have a self proclaimed communist on you advisory board?
Why would you be so ignorant of the facts to accuse someone who is not a communist now of being a communist now?
Why would some one who believes animals should have a right to legal consul have a place on you advisory board?
Animals are defended all the time.
Why nominate a person to the supreme court who has been overturned so many times?
Justice Sotomayor has not been overturned any more than many other judges, and much less than many. That is no reason to reject her. Racist much?
The same person calls for the legal system to write laws instead of interpreting them?
That isn't what she did, but I see you really like the Koolaid. And how are any of those things related to Obama's policies which you say are so offensive?
If the police didn't show up they would have been a story but the cop showed up and still a story. It must be hard to have a job when no matter what you do your wrong.
Van Jones ADMITTED he was a SELF DEVOUT COMMUNIST in more then of his interviews.
So you feel if your dog wants to sue you he should be able to obtain a lawyer??
Fact she has been overturned and her briefs have been barely a page long on most of her cases. a fact you can not deny, and many have said they are bordering on social justice instead of the law.
that is what she has said in interviews
Again you think America is a bad place and we need to change well I don't think so the majority of the country thinks were good and rest of the world need to come around to a more civilized way
Van Jones has said that he is no longer a communist, and this has been in newspapers and in other stories for weeks. How is it possible that you don't know this? You should not assert that someone who flirted with communism years ago, but has since disowned that political philosophy still holds on to that political bent. However, when I told you that you were wrong, you blindly continued to make the same wrong assertion! Gosh you are dumb.
And to assert that the number of times that Justice Sotomayor has been overturned is too many simply shows that you don't know what you are talking about. When you fairly compare her to other judges in her same positions, she has not been overturned an above average number of times. Facts don't change because you screech your faulty opinions multiple times. Facts are facts.
Here are some of the actual "tough" questions Obama faces -
- Is his Afghanistan plan working, or should it be changed?
- Have we done enough yet to regulate the financial sector to ensure we don't have another meltdown soon? Shouldn't we be working on ensuring that no institution is too big to fail?
You could even Bring in Tom Delay to do Color Commentary.
Mr. News
Why do you like teleprompters?
Why do you want to servicemen to kill themselves?
You really run ACORN, don't you?
Oh, I dunno, Chrissy . . . I'm thinking Glenn Beck's characterization of Obama as "a racist" and Sean Hannity's frequent editing of Obama video clips may have a little something to do with it . . .
Let's be really honest here, Chris. Fox's 2.6 to 3 million viewers represent less than 1% of the voting public - and your number is consistent. In all honesty, do you really believe that any of your loyal viewers even voted for Obama?
And what is the likelihood that Hannity, Beck and others will take Obama's words, edit them, and try to use them in a dishonest way against this president?
It seems to me that your assertion is both petty and childish.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/nielsens-charts.htm
Cable top 15
Rank Show name Network Day, time Viewers in millions
1. Video Music Awards MTV Sun., 9 9.0
2. Miami at FSU ESPN Mon., 8 8.4
3. iCarly Nick Sat., 8 7.6
4. Scooby-Doo Cartoon Sun., 7 6.1
5. WWE Raw USA Mon., 9 5.6
6. WWE Raw USA Mon., 10 5.4
7. The O'Reilly Factor Fox News Wed., 9:15 5.1
* True Blood HBO Sun., 9 5.1
9. Monk USA Fri., 9 4.8
10. NCIS USA Mon, 8 4.7
11. Presidential Address Fox News Wed., 8:11 4.4
12. Sons of Anarchy FX Tues., 10 4.3
13. NCIS USA Sun., 8 4.1
* iCarly Nick Sun., 7 4.1
* VMA Preshow MTV Sun., 8 4.1
....you were saying??????
So we might be the lonely few willing to endure Fox.
And aren't their numbers tabulated by Neilsen? I am sure they are still reputable right?
Now why won't you come on our shows?
Fox must be treated with respect!!! somehow respecting Fox has become a critically important aspect of American politics. Its a new litmus test like abortion or gun rights.
Question: Did Obama say he would never appear on Fox ever again?
Oh and I laughed when Wallace talked about his "tough questions". I am sure those tough questions also go to the teabaggers.
You have become the bullies in the park, pushing EVERYONE around who you don't like, and now your on the side pouting because no one wanted to pick you to play kickball. The "pettiness" ad "childishness" is your own pathetic projection on those who have chosen not to give you anymore legitimacy.
Methinks you are lying.
I think President Obama has answered FOX NEWS' constant question of "Is the President becoming too over-exposed?"
Since FOX NEWS constantly touts themselves as "The most powerful name in news", it's no wonder that President Obama doesn't want to expose his radical agenda to all those clear-thinking, fair-and-balanced viewers.
And, since the president probably knows he'll get "tough questions" like those during Chris' grilling of President Cheney, Chris can probably add "scaredy cat" to his list of insults.
We should not enable their lack of ethics or morals by having decent people appear on their broadcasts.
Fighting to eliminate advertisers would be harder.
Just embargo them.
They just interrupt you and keep you from presenting the real "fair and balanced" viewpoint anyway.
Gee Mr. Wallace, and who is whinning like a baby?
It is also the very evidence of a lack of respect and of a political bias, that would naturally disqualify anybody from hosting any supposedly "fair and balanced" forum.
The hypocrisy and the anger and the disrespect and the hatred at Fox News Channel is so obvious and so strong, that you can actually smell it right through your television...
And when I say disrespect, I'm not so much thinking of a disrespect for the President, but of a disrespect for our Democracy and for the majority of the American People who made Mr. Obama their President in a democratic process... that's what Fox News Channel seems to disrespect and hate the most, our Democracy.
ROFLMAO!!
Chris is it fair to call the White House childish? Or were you projecting your emotions to us about your personal rejection? And please the tough questions. The Cheney interview was so loaded with toughness I thought it was a version of torture. They need to move to Mongolia.
Didn't he say just yesterday, that he didn't think the country needed Obama on another news show ?
When Wallace calls out the Becks, Hannity's, and Limbaugh's for being what they really are, maybe Obama should consider going on your show.
Oh wait a minute, if you did that, you wouldn't have a show on Fox Noise, would you?
I wonder if Fox thought that it is was childish that Beck went after Van Jones for two weeks just because his company was making Beck loose his sponsors.
Here is Wallace's question to a Republican - "What is your favorite color? Is it blue?" Here is Wallace's question to the President - "Why are you such a marxist, socialist, communist, radical, racist, and death panel promoter?"
The other networks, ABC, CNN, NBC, CBS... they'll put Obama's feet to the fire when needed. They'll ask tough questions. Like Sanchez said, they REPORT the news.
FOX NEWS a) isn't a News organization and b) they're pushing an anti-Obama agenda. OF COURSE THE PRESIDENT ISN'T GOING TO GO ON YOUR BLOODY CHANNEL. BABIES.
Not so much for most the other anchors on the air at Fox. They really buy into that "Fair and Balanced" thing, entranced and hypnotized by Murdoch, as the planet's most famous media giant. (Therefore, he must be right). But these other Fox players are not journalists, nor are they asked to be by their employer.
Of course, with Murdoch, it's never been about "news', nor even about conservatism. It's about growing his audience, in which he is a true visionary... tapping in to the just-below-the-surface hate/fear of a substantial portion of the American public. Who was it that said, "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."?
Murdoch's background is in tabloids, a medium that he grew and matured. Fox Channel, and Fox News clearly have the tabloid element, which is precicely why it's not "news".
Slowly, the real news people in America are starting to point this out about Fox, even mentioning the company by name. I hope it continues. So does Murdoch.
And, as has been stated already, Wallace doesn't understand that Fox isn't a news network. Plus, if he had a different name wouldn't be on TV at all.
On the other hand, this is classic schoolyard bully behavior: They slime the president at every turn, and then insult him when he won't do what they want him to do. I applaud the president for telling Faux, Yes you can go play with yourselves.
It is amazing that they think they are the only network that asks tough questions or is capable of criticizing the administration. The dirty little truth is that Fox is the only network that is so obviously ideological. What other mainstream network routinely complains about the "mainstream media" so much? Clearly they are ideological driven if they think they somehow have cornered the truthyness market in the media.
They do enjoy believing their own propaganda, don't they?
After a while they begin to believe their own propaganda. That's when thing start to go bad.
That's very well put, eb. I would nit pick a little, and say that those benefiting by AA do have to work hard and prove themselves deserving, so that wouldn't help Fox.
Fox is more like a kid who occasionally showed up at high school stoned out of his mind, didn't complete any assignments, and is crying because he's not being given a degree from a university.
What are cons always saying about "Equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome!"?
Fox has had many years and a lot of money available to whip themselves into a respected news organization.
They squandered that opportunity, and now they want to play in the same league as those who worked to be (relatively) respectable news outlets.
So gosh, I can't imagine why the president wouldn't have the time of day for that snot-nosed little punk.
Comedy Central's not on basic cable, Fox is the next best thing.
When are they going to do a story about Carl Rove the Czar??
"Fox's Chicken McNews"
I used to feel kind of sorry for the folks who watched Fox News. But, not anymore. It's their choice to watch it - it helps them feel better about being so ignorant.
My new stance to those who disagree with the current administration: "If you don't like it, you're welcome to leave."
I mean, isn't that what folks who protested Iraq were told? "It's a free country - nobody is stopping you from leaving".
I just leave it at that. Not going to stoop to their level and get in arguments about completely ridiculous things. If Fox ever decides it wants to become a real news channel, then I'll be happy to engage in debate. Until then, good riddance.
Democrats - bad
Liberals - dangerous evil
Republicans - good
Conservatives - heroes
Wallace doesn't understand or doesn't want to understand why Obama thinks they cover him unfairly.
Wallace' objective would be what it always is--suppressed premises manipulated as fact, complex question fallacies, question begging, circular argumentation, etc. Any loudmouth can stage a shout-down. But why would the President agree to dialogue with that? Onlookers might not be able to tell the difference between them.
Does that mean manufacture?
No Chris. What you should have said was "Obama not appearing on Fox News because of Race-Baiting and Fearmongering"