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Showing posts with label Chris Wallace. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Part II

By Rich Kozlovich Tags:

 

CNN has been tanking for years, it's continued existence is in question, and they're facing a major defamation fight with James O'Keefe they're most like to lose as the judge who ordered this case to be continued said:

"If you stay on the bench long enough, you see a lot of things. Still, I never thought I'd see a major news organization downplaying the importance of telling the truth in its broadcasts. But that is what CNN has done in this case."
 
If CNN had issued a retraction, which is what was originally asked of them, this could have been avoided, but they didn't because they deceived themselves into believing they could deliberately lie and get away with it by hiding behind the New York Time v. Sullivan decision, since actual malice is hard to prove, and it's long overdue for Sullivan to be overturned.

CNN has it's troubles, and the nation can smile.   At CNN they're going to chop hundreds, including network stars off the payroll.  

"If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they're not reading any of this media, and we've lost this audience completely. A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form."..........The report cited Nielsen ratings for CNN, and also MSNBC, that revealed the networks' audiences have vanished. They're down by 40% or more. "Insiders told Puck the new round of firings will likely see on-air talent like them affected, as the network's new CEO looks to free up finances amid waning ratings," ............

In the midst of this Chris Wallace has decided to forego his seven million dollar a year salary in order to podcast.   Chris Wallace is leaving because "at 77, is eager to see what a transformed media environment has to offer, and neither he or his family want him to retire, and he wants more control over what he produces, which will be "unbiased".  Yeah right!  While I'm sure he's more than financially secure, it still comes down to this.  If he couldn't carry the freight at CNN, what makes him think he can carry the freight on his own.

Wallace, who CNN thinks is "one the the most respected political journalists int he news business" was hired at CNN to be their lead guy at CNN+ streaming service which lasted a month. 

Monday, October 31, 2022

Sunday Schadenfreude: Chris Wallace ratings far worse than show he replaced as CNN braces for holiday season layoffs

Chris Wallace left Fox News in a huff and signed a contract with CNN to be the point man on the cable network’s streaming service, CNN+. That venture lasted only days before the new owners pulled the plug, leaving the network stuck with finding some use for its expensive (“more than $6 million a year”) new employee. They came up with a Sunday evening interview program, titled Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace.”  As Radar Online reports, the results are dismal:................  To Read More....

My Take - Chris Wallace is a loser because I think he's a duplicitous arrogant snot.  His salary is a loser because he's not drawing an audience of any size.  CNN is a loser because the new owners aren't aggressive enough in changing the direction of the network because I think they're not conservatives, they're liberals in sheep's clothing.  Otherwise they'd have come out and emphatically said the network was corrupted with leftist ideologues that were dishonest in their representation of the news and fired each and every one of their talking heads, along with the management people.  They didn't.  If this continues, and I think it will, CNN will be sold, at a bargain price, if it can be sold.  
 
Companies that deliver "news" have nothing to sell except their access to an audience, and they're fast running out of that asset.    Schadenfreude!
 

 

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Chris Wallace, Jonah Goldberg, CNN, Jeff Zucker and Moral Clarity

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:

On February 6th Paul Bois posted this piece, Report: Chris Wallace Upset over Jeff Zucker Ouster at CNN, Uncertain About His Future saying:

Former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace is reportedly “irate” over the ouster of CNN president Jeff Zucker and now feels uncertain about his future at the network.  Speaking with Radar Online, a TV insider said Wallace has been “second-guessing his decision” to leave Fox News for the upcoming CNN+ streaming platform in the wake of Zucker’s resignation for his undisclosed affair with his subordinate, Allison Gollust. “Chris is the type of person who makes it known if he doesn’t like something,” the source told the outlet. “He went over there for Zucker and now Zucker is gone. Wallace feels that he has been stiffed. He’s got no staff, no Executive Producer and the guy he gave up a prized gig for has just walked out the door.”............Wallace has no protection. ...............“I am thrilled to join CNN+. After decades in broadcast and cable news, I am excited to explore the world of streaming”

And he's all upset now.  Schadenfreude, Zucker was the guy who ran CNN into the ground over the last nine years.  This is the guy he praises!  Well, let's face it, Wallace is a self-absorbed arrogant snot who somehow thought he was really special, and better than all the others at Fox, all of whom were beneath him, including the audience who watched Fox, but fewer and fewer watched him.  He's even worse than his father.  

And now it turns out another arrogant snot, Jonah Goldberg, along with Steve Hayes who left Fox is going to NBC, acting like great moralists as they marched out from Fox claiming Fox's Patriot Purge series was:

 "a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery, and damning omissions” ..........."the release of 'Patriot Purge' wasn’t an isolated incident, it was merely the most egregious example of a longstanding trend."....accusing them of amplifying "the false claims and bizarre narratives of Donald Trump" for the past five years.

So he went to CNN for moral clarity?  

CNN, a network that's totally recognized (outside the leftist echo chamber of irrational head nodders) for lies, conspiracies, misinformation and blatant Democrat and leftist partisanship, so they left Fox because these two think CNN and NBC are more "honest and moral" than Fox?  Do I understand that correctly?

Yet the nation is watching Fox and abandoning CNN, so what does America see these false conservatives don't?    Do these people live in an alternate universe

"Fox News ratings have dominated for a remarkable twenty years.  It is actually CNN that festers in an alternate universe awash with toxic radiation; in fact, the network is imploding into a fake news black hole".  

Or, are they nothing more than false conservatives who are in reality leftist hypocrites?

I read Goldberg's book Liberal Fascism and was totally impressed.  I don't know what happened to him after that, but he's lost his mind, and his audience.  Will leftists embrace him?  Maybe, but being embraced by the left is like being embraced by a bone crushing anaconda. 

Now it's being reported that there's an effort to pay hush money to Chris Cuomo to the tune of $9 million, presumably to prevent more exposure of what Zucker and CNN have been up to.  So while attempting to attain the moral high ground and "graciously" acknowledging:

"Fox News still does real reporting, and there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis," they wrote. "But the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible."

And just who are these "irresponsible" voices on Fox?  Most likely he's referring to Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham and Janine Pirro, all of whom are all very outspoken conservatives and who keep being shown to be accurate and correct in their views.  Truth and Time are on the same side, and they're carrying the day with America, Chris Wallace and his views are going to become meaningless. 

Okay, so let's take a look at the network Wallace and Goldberg joined over moral considerations.  

On February 5 John NolteCNN’s Pantheon of Creeps, making a great comparison between them and the people at Fox for moral clarity, and we already know about Zucker and his mistress, to then we have Jeffrey Toobin who was caught masturbating on a Zoom call. Allison Gollust, Zucker's paramour who rose right to the top (but it wasn't because she was sleeping with the boss) while both were married to other people.  

Then there's Chris Cuomo who Nolte describes in this way:

Chris Cuomo, the dilettante little brother of Andrew Cuomo,  encouraged political violence, physically threatened his critics, grabbed a woman’s ass, sought to destroy the credibility of his brother’s dozen or so accusers, ran around New York while infected with COVID (when New York was Pandemic Ground Zero), lied to CNN viewers about remaining in his basement quarantine, staged a phony exit from that basement quarantine, and was repeatedly caught not wearing a mask after shaming others to wear masks. 

Don Lemon is accused of "stuffing his hands down his pants and shoving his stink-filled fingers under a man’s nose" and  Michael Avenatti, who CNN promoted over and over again is now a felon for his criminal activities.   Then there's John Griffin, a former producer at CNN.  He's facing "sex-trafficking" charges involving minors along with anther former producer, Rick Saleeby, who has been accused of having sex with a minor. 

Then there's Andrew Cuomo who CNN worked to cover "up his scandals, demonized his critics, and blatantly sought to mythologize him into a 2020 presidential contender. Then, in August of 2021, it all came crashing down when Cuomo was forced to resign after an investigation by New York’s attorney general (and fellow Democrat) found that he sexually harassed 11 women.

And this is the network these people are going to for moral clarity!


Sunday, October 24, 2021

Fox News' Chris Wallace: Jen Psaki is 'One of the Best Press Secretaries Ever'

Landon Mion Landon Mion Posted: Oct 23, 2021 

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace said that White House press secretary Jen Psaki is "one of the best press secretaries ever" after hearing her response to a question from Peter Doocey, the network's White House correspondent, about President Joe Biden claiming that he had been to the southern border.............."Honestly, as somebody who’s spent six years in the White House, my immediate reaction was, 'Those are two people at the top of their game.' ... I think that [Doocy] has become the Sam Donaldson of this White House press corps ... and Jen Psaki, I think, is one of the best press secretaries ever," Wallace said Friday. "I don't know that anything was particularly accomplished, but they both gave and got pretty good."......To Read More....

My Take - Reading the comments (556 of them) you realize most see Chris Wallace in the same light as do I.  He's as big a disgrace as his father.  One commenter noted Wallace was bi-lingual.  He spoke English and Stupid, and that was one of the milder ones.

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Monday, September 13, 2021

Chris Wallace is a Disgrace

By Rich Kozlovich

On September 12, 2021 Yelena Dzhonova posted this article  Fox News host Chris Wallace said GOP reps who made false claims about election fraud cannot appear on his Sunday show saying: 

"........he doesn't invite on lawmakers who've questioned the legitimacy of now President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election.  "I have purposefully not had them on, frankly, because I don't want to hear their crap"

He doesn't want to hear their crap?  He says if they come on the show he'll put them through the wringer, yet Wallace, who is as dishonest a journalist as was his dad, is neither looking for truth, nor does he wish to see it.  Like his dad and the rest of those "journalists" at 60 Minutes, they were always looking to promote their narrative of events, as they did with the Alar story.  

If he was an honest journalist he would recognize the evidence of fraud has been overwhelming, and now that Arizona has shown just how massive it was in just Maricopa County, that evidence will continue to grow as more states perform audits.  

Dzhonova is just as guilty of being a left wing hack as Wallace claiming,  there's "no evidence of voter fraud".  Really?  Try this, 

As Jay Valentine states, audits light up the infrastructure!  When the dust finally settles and the show definitively the amount of voter fraud during the 2020 election was massive, orchestrated, organized and deliberate, in what will they do then?  I can say what I would do.  Refuse to talk to Wallace......ever again......... just as Congressman Mo Brooks did with left wing CNN hack reporter Jim Acosta calling him nothing but a liar. 

election fraud occurs cycle after cycle and is even tolerated"....with "glaring irregularities, anomalies, and illegalities," and the media denies it, and defames those fighting it, democracy ceases to exist.

The fact of the matter is to believe Biden was legitimately elected requires believing the unbelievable.  But for intellectually corrupt hacks like Wallace, believing the unbelievable is one of the tenets of the Church of Wokeness, and to do otherwise is leftist heresy.  

Chris Wallace is dishonest and dishonorable, which is how he puts people through the wringer".  Furthermore he's puerile, narcissistic, and unprofessional. Please view my


Thursday, January 21, 2021

Biden’s inaugural speech: banal, slurred, and slightly vicious

January 21, 2021 By Andrea Widburg

Although Chris Wallace of Fox News declared that Biden’s inaugural speech was “the best inaugural address I ever heard” in 60 years, I have to admit to being less charmed. His slurred delivery, banal repetition, and vicious edge just didn’t work for me. What can I say? I wasn’t his target audience.

First, lest you doubt me, Chris Wallace really did go all fan girl on Biden. Mind you, we all saw this coming when he moderated the first debate. Wallace doesn’t like Trump and, in the last year, he stopped trying to hide it:

Second, let’s talk about Biden’s delivery. To give him credit, he remained upright and coherent for the entire 22-minute speech. I wasn’t sure he could, so a big Bravo! for that. Now, before I get to my next point, let me make it clear that I do not believe that Biden has Parkinson’s disease, a tragic, progressive nerve disorder. I mention it only because one of the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease is slurred, flattened speech.

Listen to Biden, just four years ago, explaining how he got Ukraine to back off investigating Burisma:..........To Read More....

My Take -  Four years of media fawning....gag!

Monday, October 12, 2020

America’s Chris Wallace Problem

Is anything more dangerous to our country than media bias? 

Why did Wallace use his position as moderator of a presidential debate to parrot Gov. Brown’s rhetoric by claiming that “white supremacists and militia groups” were somehow to blame for the Portland riots?

Wallace’s dismal performance as moderator in Tuesday’s presidential debate reminded many viewers of such previous instances in which the Fox News Sunday host has shown his prejudice against Trump. And this matters, not only because of how that ugly televised carnival might affect the election, but because of what it tells us about the sad state of journalism in America. If Wallace is, Dov Fischer says, “the fairest moderator we can hope for in today’s Left-dominated media,” there is no hope for fairness. But what about those “facts” that Wallace presumed to lecture Katie Pavlich about? Even if we must resign ourselves to partisan prejudice from the media, must we tolerate journalists trafficking in outright lies?.........To Read More.....

My Take -   My views of Chris Wallace are similar, as I stated in this piece. You may wish to review my



Sunday, October 4, 2020

The Dishonorable Chris Wallace

Perhaps at one time in his career, Chris Wallace possessed the integrity and impartial judgment needed to communicate the facts of a story honestly

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There is an abundance of destruction, loss of life, and livelihoods resulting from so many riots burning down major American cities controlled by Democrats. However, white supremacists have not been identified as one of the groups responsible for the carnage. At present, there is no evidence that white supremacist groups are engaged in any high profile collective violence in the country or toward the country.

So why did Presidential debate moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News ask President Trump to condemn white supremacy?  He could have just as easily and with the same level of relevance asked him to condemn the over hunting of whales in the North Atlantic or the high price of fava beans?

Black Lives Matters and Antifa account for nearly all of the violence tearing through the country. Yet, Wallace made it a point to intimately connect Trump to white supremacist groups even though there is no evidence showing any connection or affiliation between the President and any hate groups, let alone any white supremacist groups............Hence, Wallace’s insinuation is clear that there is some connection between white supremacists and the looting of stores, the shooting of police, and the killing of the innocent........Wallace knowingly perpetuated a dishonest media concocted connection between Trump and white supremacists where, according to all of the available evidence, no such relationship exists.

The irony is that although there has never been any direct or indirect evidence that the President has any affiliation with any white supremacy groups, it was recently argued by Biden’s VP pick, Kamala Harris, that Biden’s school bussing policies were close to being racist. That, along with many of his questionable statements over the years regarding African Americans, should, according to the left, make Biden a prime candidate for white supremacy. Yet, Wallace never requested Biden also to renounce white supremacy during the debate.................To Read More.....

My Take -   My views of Chris Wallace are similar, as I stated in this piece,............. 

Puerile, Narcissistic, and Unprofessional?  Well, he learned at the knees of his father, Mike Wallace, Dan Rather and that whole crew at 60 Minutes.  As for the idea that she wouldn't have dared to tell him and Sam Donaldson what questions to ask: Well if this little snowflake faced Kayleigh McEnany he would have been put in his place, and he would have taken it also!  Big ego, bad attitude, and small intellect.    

As for Sam Donaldson, I have to wonder if he would have asked the stupid questions these press secretaries are facing today. I have no doubt Chris Wallace would have, but the fact is I've never thought he was anything but a clever schemer with little historical background, intelligence or integrity.  And that was from his very early Fox News days. 

You may wish to review my


Sunday, May 31, 2020

Chris Wallace: Puerile, Narcissistic, and Unprofessional

Sunday, October 6, 2019

On Being and Remaining a Republic

A misguided answer from Hillary Clinton.

J.R.L. Noland

Hillary Clinton’s answer to moderator Chris Wallace’s opening question at the third Presidential debate has received a lot of attention. As many will know by now, when asked about the sort of Supreme Court justices she might nominate, Clinton said the Court ought to stand up to the wealthy and powerful and “represent all of us.”

Although it is worth noting the deep irony of her formulation, her sentiment in itself will probably strike many Americans as reasonable and unobjectionable. After all, who would want the court to serve the interests of the rich only? Every American should expect a fair hearing should they ever find themselves before the Court.

What if the law is biased in favor of the wealthy and powerful? What if the laws don’t recognize changing moral norms and societal standards? Shouldn’t the justices take all of this into consideration and represent all the people and reflect the will of the people in their judgments? .....To Read More....

My Take - That's the problem with so many....they think it's the Supreme Court's responsibility to "represent" someone, or anyone for that matter.  It isn't!  It's the court's job to interpret the laws as determined by the legislature - the ones who actuality are supposed to "represent" the people who elect them - of every ilk.   Solution?  Repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments and add a 28th Amendment to create age and term limits for the federal judiciary.....and the Congress. 

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Air war breaks out between Fox News Channel hosts

September 26, 2019 By Peter Barry Chowka

The ideological war between prominent Fox News channel program hosts that I first reported on eighteen months ago has gone hot – and this time the dust up is approaching near-nuclear levels of direct on camera mano a mano................. The [prime time] opinion programming side of Fox is openly mocked in the halls of Fox by what they [the opinion programming hosts and staff] call “the so-called news division.”

The horrendous ratings of Chris Wallace and Shep Smith [Smith’s total viewing audience is about 50% of what the prime-time hosts pull in] show how out of touch they are with the Fox audience, and the general consensus is that both Shep and Chris should just pack up and go to work for MSNBC or CNN because the Fox audience hates their biased views.

One need only to look at Fox News election night [coverage in] 2016. They [Smith and Wallace] were absolutely and visibly stunned by Donald Trump’s victory. And now the internal Fox News battle is joined anew. Stay tuned for further developments that are almost sure to come............. To Read More

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

The Shame of Baltimore

How the Democrat machine - that Rep. Cummings is part of - destroyed Charm City.

July 29, 2019 Frontpagemag.com

Editors' note: "In the 1950s and early ’60s, Baltimore was booming," begins John Perazzo in his elegy and indictment of the ruin that the Democrats wrought. "In 1967, however, this prosperity began to vanish when the city government was taken over by a string of Democratic mayors."
 
The New Shame of the Cities, Perazzo's pamphlet for the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a vital counterweight to the mendacious cries of racism that have descended on President Trump for daring to speak the truth about Baltimore and Rep. Elijah Cummings.
 
“Black congressman, majority-black district. ‘No human being would want to live there.’ Is he saying people that live in Baltimore are not human beings?” Chris Wallace blathered on FOX News.
 
As John Perazzo demonstrates, people don't want to live there. Not since the Democrat machine - that Rep. Cummings is part of - ruined Charm City.............The victims of Baltimore's Democrat catastrophe invariably have been black people. Those are the same people whom President Trump stood up for when he took on Rep. Elijah Cummings and the other poverty pimps who have run Baltimore and other cities into the ground.............To Read More....

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Democrats’ New McCarthyism – Accusing Trump of Russia Ties without Any Evidence

By Onan Coca March 8, 2017

There are transcripts that provide very helpful, very critical insights into whether or not Russian intelligence and senior Russian political leaders, including Vladimir Putin were cooperating, with colluding with the Trump campaign at the highest levels to influence the outcome of our election. — Senator Chris Coon

This past week Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) uttered those words while appearing on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell. Mitchell followed up by pressing Coons for proof of his accusations, to which Coons replied that he had none.

Nevertheless, Mitchell didn’t proceed to excoriate the Senator for hurling such wild and unsubstantiated claims but simply let the moment pass and Coons’ commentary be left hanging in the media nether. 

Thankfully, Chris Wallace at Fox News is not nearly as gutless, and he took the Senator to task for his dangerous comments on Fox News SUNDAY.......To Read More....

My TakeTwo things. First, Chris Wallace did his job the way it should be done, which shows even a blind monkey can find a coconut.  Secondly, I hate it when they use the McCarthy metaphor.  McCarthy was right, and even then there was evidence communists had taken over key positions in FDR's government and effected policy that was beneficial to Stalin.  All shown to be true in 1995 when the Venona Intercepts were released.  Information both Truman and Eisenhower had to know when they were in the White House - both of whom condemned McCarthy.  At least the author called McCarthy an "erstwhile warrior against communism", so he must have read a real history book or two.  MeCarthy had lots of issues, but being wrong in this case wasn't one of them. 


Monday, September 23, 2013

GOP cannibals devour hottest Republican

Chris Wallace stunned by 'angry' targeting of conservative rock star

Fox News host Chris Wallace said he received an unprecedented outpouring of opposition research and pointed questions for his scheduled interview Sunday with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.  But it didn’t come from Democrats. It came from Republicans.
“As soon as we listed Ted Cruz as a guest this week, we got unsolicited research and questions – not from Democrats but from Republicans to hammer Ted Cruz,” said Wallace, in an interview with Karl Rove. “Why are Republicans so angry at Ted Cruz?”
Evidently he asked the right person.  Rove was armed for bear – and his target, too, was Cruz, whom he is angered with for leading an effort to stop Obamacare.  Rove said Cruz and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, hatched an ill-conceived plan without consultation with their colleagues…... Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is calling on Wallace to release the names of those “top Republicans” who were trying to “trash” Cruz.....To Read More…..