Former Fox News Anchor Chris Wallace Describes How Bad It Was to Work at Fox News

[Algernon Moncrieff]

Mother Jones

“Some people might have drawn the line earlier, or at a different point,” he acknowledged. “I think Fox has changed over the course of the last year and a half. But I can certainly understand where somebody would say, ‘Gee, you were a slow learner, Chris.’”

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But Mr. Wallace also acknowledged that he felt a shift at Fox News in the months after Donald J. Trump’s defeat in 2020—a period when the channel ended its 7 p.m. newscast, fired the political editor who helped project a Trump loss in Arizona on election night and promoted hosts like Mr. Carlson who downplayed the Jan. 6 riot.

He confirmed reports that he was so alarmed by Mr. Carlson’s documentary “Patriot Purge” — which falsely suggested the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was a “false flag” operation intended to demonize conservatives—that he complained directly to Fox News management.

Not that it seemed to have mattered much. “I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” Wallace said. “But when people start to question the truth—Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection?—I found that unsustainable.”

[Layzeebeaver]

1. Screw him.

He was a key enabler of all the fox bullshit.

[ZonkerHarris]

2. He's a fucking lying moron. It wasn't just the last year and a half that Fox went nuts

it's been 20 fucking years Wallace!
he just ran out of excuses for them.

[SamKnause]

3. Fuck him.

It only took him 18 years to figure out he worked for a lying cesspool.

Fuck him !!!

[Mike Nelson]

4. Nope...

... not buying it, at all, Mr. Wallace. You would have been better off saying nothing. Now, we know you think we're all fools.

[lame54]

5. Chris, the truth shall set you free...

But those fat checks will keep you around a little longer

[lambchopp59]

6. Fox news failed the elementary school lesson:

The moral conundrum of telling a lie.
That gets backed by another lie.
Getting reinforced by more lies.
Until there's nothing left but keeping up the pyramid of confabulations you've concocted.
Until the lies start to feel like some shaky truth.
Then when the facts come out to expose it all...
"Nothing to see there folks, look at these cute puppies!!!"

[erronis]

9. I learned that around 2nd grade. A lie is very hard to sustain.

Doesn't mean I didn't prevaricate a bit more throughout my life, but I think I knew the whoppers would come back and bite me in the ass.

[UTUSN]

7. "draw line/earlier - slow learner - unsustainable" - another Daddy Issues boy

Daddy wasn't a prize himself, but Chrissy just had to try to strike out on his own. Slink away into oblivion, son!

[Geechie]

8. Cry me a fucking river. nt

[usaf-vet]

10. Chris Wallace disgraced the Wallace newsman name.

Chris Wallace disgraced the Wallace newsman name.

[Aussie105]

11. Just Wallace trying to get some distance from Fox and the past.

. . . . honest, I'm one of the Good Guys, I had a conscience all along . . .

Maybe trying to find work elsewhere?

Not working for most, Chris. Go write a book, or something.

[MadameButterfly]

12. yet I was glad he was there

It's not as if FOX would have been off the air without him, and Fox viewers got an occasional dose of sanity from him that they wouldn't have gotten from other Fox anchors.

i'm annoyed with all of the indignant high level Republicans each finding the moment they can no longer go along with the party. As if they didn't have to be jerks for being a part of it in the first place. As if the party just became racist, cheating, and only about power for the wealthy when Trump got elected or when he tried to overthrow the government.

But we need the Lincoln Project, Pence's former staffer, books by insiders saying it was all a lie... some of these guys are our best spokespersons and can reach the people who can be swayed. So we welcome them and are grateful they have consciences and the ability to change, even admit their error.

[Jarqui]

13. FOX News has edited video, used images from unrelated events, outright lied, etc, etc, etc

long before Jan 6th, 2021. It went on for many years.

Chris stood by while it happened.

[Aussie105]

14. Not a problem.

A decent paycheck soothed his concerned conscience.

But now he speaks up. But he is still soft-soaping Fox and it's evil intent.

[Duppers]

15. Exactly.

[BaronChocula]

16. Complete and utter BS

There are less-seasoned "journalists" who saw the danger coming at F*** News as far back as the 2000 election. David Shuster had a discussion with his former F*** News colleague Bret Baier about the 2000 election conspiracy F*** was pushing about pre-MAGA voters in the Flori-duh panhandle deciding not to vote after hearing the state had been called, thus (allegedly) giving Gore the advantage. They sent Baier to report on the story after maniacally pushing it. When Baier found the conspiracy theory to be incorrect, they refused to air the debunking. Now, David Shuster is no William R. Murrow, but even HE established that point 22 years ago as when F*** News went full-tilt bananas. Chris Wallace has no excuse.

[bullwinkle428]

17. Frank Conniff Tweet...

Link to tweet

[AZLD4Candidate]

18. TV's Frank lays it into TV's boob.