MIKE WALLACE IS A BUSH KISS aSS WIPE aka BUSH APOLOGIST

[flordehinojos]

he did his darndest best to keep murtha from getting his beliefs about the iraq war out on his 60 minutes program last night. to every sentence murtha uttered about iraq, the fail bush adventure there, the civil war there, the fertile ground for terrorists to gather IN IRAQ that bush has created ... to all of that, wallace sat there with that wrinkled-up face of his, looking like an old shriveled up prune, saying, but iraq does not have saddam hussein now, there is democracy in iraq, schools and hospitals (and who knows what else wallace said about how good things are) opening in iraq now, don't you think that was worth it? what a darned, tired, old argument!!!!!!!!

wallace kept putting boulders in front of murtha to the defend Bush, his war, his politics, his criminality, his sociopathic course against humanity, all of which, perhaps murtha didn't know how to throw off, or didn't want to throw off. he conceded to wallace that all of these things were good for iraq.

in the meantime, i desperately wonder, when in God's good earth with someone with enough cojones stand up and say to wallace, to chris matthews, to wolf blitzer, to paula zahn, to any and all who are bush apologists who like to put boulders of denial, spin, and contradiction in front of truth tellers, No. None of it is good for iraq, for the world, or for us here in the u.s.a.

No! It is not good for Iraq. There are not enough hospitals in Iraq for all the dead and wounded that we are creating. No. It is not good enough for Iraq that we are, in whatever schools happen to be open and operating there-anglicanizing their children, their culture, their history, their etire way of life. No. It is not good enough for Iraq that Bush-Cheney-Rice and Poppy too are stealing their oil. No... none of it has been nor is it good for Iraq. and No. None of it us good for us too.

i just wish that for once someone would stand up to these bush boulders and throw them off their balance and with that throw them off their game! that would be so good, o God!

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. I guess Mike Wallace can't win

His son practically called him senile for not supporting the regime - and he has to be disparaged here?

*sigh*

Would you call this the remark of an apologist? It's what MW would ask Bush:

What in the world prepared you to be the commander in chief of the largest superpower in the world? In your background, Mr. President, you apparently were incurious. You didn't want to travel. You knew very little about the military. . . . The governor of Texas doesn't have the kind of power that some governors have. . . . Why do you think they nominated you? . . . Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that the country is so up?

http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2005/12/08/at_87_wallace_still_tells_it_like_it_is/

[flordehinojos]

7. too bad he hasn't really asked the questions.

or used those questions of his to present programs that would ask the questions and move the country to really think about them.

[bluestateguy]

2. That's silly

The right wingers hate Mike Wallace. Hate him to death. Even Jack Murtha should be asked tough questions (and he handled them just fine). A reporters job is not to be a press secretary for Moveon.org.

[flordehinojos]

8. but neither is a reporter's job one of placing boulders in front of truths

[Brundle_Fly]

3. mike wallace is supposed to be

a little bit whacko.

but I thought he did his best to be impartial tonight, like you know,....how reporters should be.

[flordehinojos]

9. somehow i don't see the impartiality you saw so we might be looking at the

same event with different lenses.

[Vidar]

4. I disagree, and CBS with all its faults, is the best we've got.

[flordehinojos]

10. not sure i can agree with that ...

[Cooley Hurd]

5. I saw it - I thought Wallace was playing devil's advocate...

...for the purpose of letting Murtha answer his critics directly.

Perhaps I haven't seen Mike lately, but did anyone else notice that he's starting to slur his words a bit? Granted, he's 87 years old, but it was the first time I've noticed that he's having trouble enunciating.:shrug:

[flordehinojos]

6. it seems to me that wallace would have done the country a greater service

if, instead of playing devil's advocate, he would've asked questions that would've allowed murtha to expand on what he was saying, or trying to say, rather than placing boulders in front of him for the purpose of playing devil's advocate.

[Buns_of_Fire]

13. Toss him softball questions, you mean?

I wouldn't buy that approach with Murtha any more than I buy it with any of the rebubbalican politicos being interviewed by Sean Hannity. I thought Murtha acquitted himself admirably and honestly. And that makes the interview that much more satisfying, IMO. It's like saying to the bubs that OUR guys can handle the tough questions at hand while YOUR guys do nothing but lie and evade and try to change the subject even when they're with a hand-picked, GOP toady ass-kissing interviewer.

Mike Wallace has always been 60 Minutes' attack dog, and he does not suffer fools gladly. In this, he played his part well, and Murtha played his part well. All in all, I thought it was a good interview.

If nothing else, at least he doesn't yell "SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" in the middle of it all. :-)

[IADEMO2004]

11. Boston Globe --Wallace W quote

Q. President George W. Bush has declined to be interviewed by you. What would you ask him if you had the chance?

A. What in the world prepared you to be the commander in chief of the largest superpower in the world? In your background, Mr. President, you apparently were incurious. You didn't want to travel. You knew very little about the military. . . . The governor of Texas doesn't have the kind of power that some governors have. . . . Why do you think they nominated you? . . . Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that the country is so up?

http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2005/12/08/at_87_wallace_still_tells_it_like_it_is/

[LostinVA]

12. Mike Wallace is so not a Bushbot

His son? Yeah. Him? No way.

[Neecy]

14. Mike Wallace is ok....

But that standard old line about schools and hospitals opening always makes me want to scream that they were all open and functioning before we bombed the shit out of an almost defenseless country.

I've never understood why we're supposed to be soothed by the school/hospital mantra. They'd ALL be open if it weren't for our warmongering.

[Beausoir]

15. I watched 60 Minutes. I had a completely different reaction.

I thought Wallace really gave Murtha a platform for his views.

[Kansas Wyatt]

16. Doesn't his son work for...

The Karl Rove Propaganda Syndicate?

[NYCGirl]

17. Yes, but Chris Wallace has "disowned" his father because he criticized

Bush:

Wallace vs. Wallace: Fox News Sunday anchorman Chris Wallace—son of 60 Minutes star Mike Wallace—has been quoted saying his father has "lost it." The younger Wallace was responding to a Boston Globe interview with his father in which the veteran newsman criticized President Bush.

"He's lost it," Chris Wallace said on Boston radio station WRKO. "The man has lost it. What can I say ... He's 87 years old and things have set in. I mean, we're going to have a competence hearing pretty soon."

http://www.slate.com/id/2132313/

[Straight Shooter]

18. What a little sh*t.

If he has something disparaging to say about his father, he can keep it between his father and himself.

What a petty ingrate.