Mike WALLACE gets FDR medal. A Lib?-----who knew??!!1

[UTUSN]

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/12102006/gossip/liz/chewing_the_fat_over_lunch_liz_liz_smith.htm?page=0

IF THERE'S one honor every journalist yearns for, it's the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute's prized "F.D.R. Freedom of Speech and Expression Medal." Last week they gave it to Mike Wallace, and a great "First Amendment/freedom of speech" man he is indeed. This conjunction also was rare, for Mike had known and interviewed Eleanor Roosevelt during her United Nations years. ....

When "60 Minutes"'s Steve Kroft got up to pay tribute, he wisecracked "Mike? Mike? Where are you sitting? Oh, there you are at Katie Couric's table - good for you!" Katie cracked up. So did Mike.

Don Hewitt, the "60 Minutes" man emeritus, stated from the podium that "F.D.R. once said, 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!' Obviously, he never met Mike Wallace!" Andy Rooney had the last word, saying he knew he was expected to be critical about Mike but he just couldn't do it. Andy seemed in a benign mood, maybe because he was with the attractive Beryl Pfizer. The latter reminded me that she and I once worked on NBC's "Home Show," which came into being at the same time they invented the "Today" and "Tonight" franchises. "Our show was the only one that flopped!" laughed Beryl. ....

Mike then saluted his wife, Mary, his attractive stepchildren and grandchildren and concluded by citing many of the legacies of F.D.R. He said, "This included Harry Truman as his vice president. Of course," said Mike, pausing, "Harry Truman was no Dick Cheney!"

The Metropolitan Club just about collapsed with good old liberal media laughter.

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[Freedom_from_Chains]

1. Oh, don't get so excited.

It's all just part of the great liberal\communist\satan conspiracy.

[PCIntern]

2. BTW, those of us who recall Mike Wallace from the 50's

are very amused that people these days call him 'liberal'. He was one of the most virulently anti-socialist individuals on TV in those days, equating progressivism with Communism. All the time.

[Oilwellian]

3. Wow...if the NYPost says Mike Wallace is liberal....

it MUST be true! :eyes:

[PCIntern]

4. Really...

I have to say that in my progressive house, Mike Wallace was among the most hated journalists b/c of the way he would give Nixon and his ilk a giant pass, but beat the crap out of any democrat who was stupid enough to show up on his smoke-filled show. Of course, that isn't fair b/c Murrow smoked like a chimney as well, but all's fair in diatribes...right?

[UTUSN]

5. Well, the Post didn't exactly call him that. Liz SMITH calls herself

the only Dem working at the NY Post and a friend-of-Bill (CLINTON). Calling WALLACE a Lib was just me extrapolating from the FDR medal and from Liz's last sentence, where she appears to be calling everybody in the room a Lib.