Faux's Chris Wallace says his father-"lost it" needs"a competence hearing"

[Pirate Smile]

From Americablog:

"60 Minutes'" Mike Wallace's son is an idiot. Sad.

Apparently conservative family values no longer include respecting your parents. Sad.

From the uber-conservative tabloid Newsmax:

"Fox News Sunday" anchorman Chris Wallace says father Mike Wallace has "lost it" - after the legendary CBS newsman told the Boston Globe last week that the fact George Bush had been elected president shows America is "-up."

"He's lost it. The man has lost it. What can I say," the younger Wallace lamented to WRKO Boston radio host Howie Carr on Friday.

"He's 87-years old and things have set in," the Fox anchor continued. "I mean, we're going to have a competence hearing pretty soon."

Wallace Jr. quickly dispelled any notion that he was joking. When Carr suggested that his comments were likely to be covered by NewsMax, he responded: "You know what? Fine. Go ahead. Call them. That's fine. I'll stand by that."

Returning to the topic of his father's competence, Wallace Jr. explained: "He's checked out. I don't understand it," beyond the fact that Wallace Sr. has "problems with the war."

"I don't know why he said what he said," he added.

On Thursday, the elder Wallace told the Boston Globe that if he had the chance to interview President Bush, he'd ask:

"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?"

Still, despite his criticism, Wallace Jr. seems to have inherited some of his father's shoot-from-the-lip-style.

Asked about DNC chair Howard Dean's recent prediction that the U.S. would lose the war in Iraq, Wallace told Carr:

"We are in a war. We do have 150,000-plus American soldiers over there. I mean, it's Tokyo Rose, for God sakes, going on radio saying we can't win the war."

No Chris, Tokyo Rose is a Republican who throws our troops' lives away like a dirty old kleenex for a war that's a lie and a disaster, rather than volunteering to go over and fight themselves.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/12/60-minutes-mike-wallaces-son-is-idiot.html

[xultar]

1. Ahhh Chris...America is Fucked UP!

[senseandsensibility]

2. The son isn't fit to shine

his father's shoes. Of course he admires *. He's just as stupid as *, and just as bought and paid for. Oh, and by the way, Chris, it's competency hearing, not competence hearing. Idiot. Now go plant your lips where they are usually planted, and leave your father alone.

[RazzleDazzle]

48. Never been a Mike Wallace fan, but I agree with you nonetheless

Chris Wallace has shown himself to be an ingrate and a shithead. What a spoiled brat of a nincompoop no-talent bozo.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. So the fact that the old man isn't part of the Faux News/GOP Borg means

he's senile? Chris is going to pack him off to an old folks' home just because he "has problems with the war"? Get a clue, you little Faux-bot: You'll never be a tenth the journalist your old man still is.

[MadisonProgressive]

15. Try a hundredth!

[medeak]

4. Mike complimented son's boss in interview

Chris should be kissing Dad's feet.

[missouri dem 2]

5. Nice family values there Chris.

He should be so ashamed of himself. My dad passed away two years ago and not a day goes by that I don't miss him. To disrespect his father in public is beneath contempt.

[Skittles]

23. it is indeed sickening

I'm sure many FOX viewers heartily approved though

[deadparrot]

6. Yay for family values.

Keep on truckin' with that 5th Commandment, Chris. :hi:

[snowbear]

7. Who is Chris Wallace?

Sorry... never hoyd of em.. :shrug:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. He's one of the Pox News wingnut talking heads.

Also the son of Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes. This time the apple fell a long way from the tree.

[depakid]

30. I imagine Mike Wallace is pretty ashamed of his son

which probably has something to do with this.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

8. What Chris Wallace needs to hear from his Dad

"Son, I'm not out of it, you are. And the "it" you're out of is THE WILL! Enjoy your Faux money, 'cuz your right-wing ass won't see ANY of my estate."

Of course, that would bring the competency hearing even more quickly!

Chris Wallace, you're a pathetic little turd who learned nothing from your father.

[Fenris]

10. Wallace must see a kindred spirit in Bush.

Another son of priveledge who got to where he is now by riding the coattails of his father.

I remember a while ago Mike was on Fox News Sunday talking to Chris about his new book and at the end of the interview Mike told Chris that he loved him and Chris seemed, to say the least, freaked out. I thought, "Now this is odd." Very telling.

[MODemocrat]

11. I believe it's Chris who's lost it; that's a prerequsite to work for FOX

Chris is too chicken to show a George W. Bush clip admitting the war on terror cannot be won, (while he was being showcased as a resolute leader at a time of national peril.) So Chris shows a clip of Howard Dean, "cleaning up his act" as he put it" and again, Bush gets another free ride. Here's to you Chris:

:+ :puke: Chris, you surely do play dirty politics!

[PassingFair]

12. Here's a shot of the bozo:

[Crunchy Frog]

13. So, are things now getting to the point

where people will be able to have their family members declared incompetent on the basis of political speech with which they disagree? Maybe we'll become like the Soviet Union, where dissenting views were considered a disease and could land you in a mental hospital. I really want to see where this is going.

Frankly, I had no idea Mike Wallace was that old. He seems pretty on top of it to me.

[MADem]

14. He's a tough old bird, sharp as a tack

And he is not a screaming liberal, either. One of his closest friends is Nancy Reagan -- he was one of the first people she called after her husband died.

Little Chris Wallace isn't fit to wipe Mike's ass, never mind shine his shoes. The putz!

[spooky3]

46. He did fine on the Diane Rehm show recently.

He occasionally rambled and asked her to snap him back to the topic, but anyone over 40 (and quite a few people younger than that) might have done the same thing, particularly if they had as many good stories to tell as he has.

He admitted on the show that he had been a workaholic earlier in his career, and several marriages terminated as a result. I'm sure that didn't make him a great father. But that doesn't entitle his son to make this type of comment publicly.

Mike Wallace is definitely no liberal. But his son has had nothing close to as distinguished a career as his father. Do you think that has anything to do with it?

[MadisonProgressive]

16. It does appear we are just about to that stage

[mitchum]

17. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child...

who is also a right wing shill and real lowdown piece of shit.

[Catherine Vincent]

18. What an ungrateful, bush boot-licking bastard!

[niyad]

19. I think Mike ought to demand a paternity test. maybe there was a mixup

at the hospital.

[NightOwwl]

20. So, ...he's putting the old man in an insane asylym because daddy has...

"radical ideas."

OK...this is pretty heavy duty stuff. I might be a touch worried if I were a parent.

Fortunately. I am 100% childless.

;)

[DoYouEverWonder]

21. Mike Wallace wouldn't even be on FAUX News

or any other News if it hadn't been for his infamous father. He certainly doesn't have the talent or ability to have gotten there on his own. What a spoiled brat and an ass.

[Bluesplayer]

22. this kind of shit

is even beneath Michael Reagan.

[area51]

24. Chris Wallace

Well, Chris, if you love this war so much, why don't you go enlist? <crickets chirping>

[applegrove]

25. I'll admit that when Mike was being interviewed lately - he was suddenly

showing his age (most people would do it around 75 or earlier). But that still makes him about 10 times smarter than me! And his son Chris.

[BluGrl]

26. Actually,

Mike Wallace participated in a documentary detailing the lives and recovery of several patients struggling with mental illness. He was one of the patients. I can't remember if he was just taking medication or if he was one of the ones that received ECT. I think he was just taking meds.

He felt that his name recognition would lend credibility to the issue.

He may very well have "lost it" but I'm not sure the war has anything to do with his problems.

[BluGrl]

28. I found it...

"Dead Blue: Surviving Depression"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431009/

[spooky3]

44. Depression has nothing to do with dementia, which is

apparently what amateur psychologist Chris Wallace believes is his father's problem. In fact, there is research showing that people with depression MORE accurately perceive the environment than do other people.

[Neil Lisst]

27. Chris Wallace sounds like a guy doing a parody of Chris Wallace

His voice is right out of The Cartoon Network, especially when he intones his name

this is Chris Wallace

[0007]

29. The day I see Halliburton and the Carlyle Group

sharing their profits from war with the soldiers that fought. Will be the day I start paying attention to Chris Wallace.

[zanne]

31. I have little respect for airing family arguments on national media

Chris Wallace will regret his words when he gets a little older, no doubt. Nobody really respects a person who will question his father's sanity to a national audience. I think it makes him look like a real idiot. Too bad he didn't inherit his father's grey matter.

[tsuki]

32. Chris Wallace works for Saudstralian FOX News, and says

his Father has lost it? Talk about Tokyo Rose...

[Demoiselle]

33. What does "-up" mean? I agree with all you guys, but..

I don't know what Mike Wallace meant by that. He also says in his imagined questions of Bunnypants that 'the country is so up."
Does he mean over...like your time is up? Please someone help this old unhip liberal understand. And yes, Chris Wallace should be locked in his room and denied supper until he apologizes.

[grasswire]

34. I assume...

....he meant "f*cked" up. That's what I inferred, anyhoo.

[Kingshakabobo]

45. Correct. They left out the --- --- --- n/t

[underpants]

35. Liberal media pot smoker

That will be the RW radio's summary of Mike Wallace.

He admitted to smoke pot a few years ago...you know for the sex.

[tabasco]

36. Propagandists for the corporate cabal should be punished.

They are helping to destroy this Nation.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

37. Chris is the one who needs a competency hearing

:eyes:

[aPOSITIVEwin]

38. Jeez...

...I'm REALLY shocked he'd say something like this about his dad that way. There's a way of saying someone has 'their own point of view', or 'you know my dad', or even something about being 'set in his ways, or 'old school', or something--but not that awful mouthful of things he said!

[chieftain]

39. What a twerp! I am sure he believes that he broke into the

news business on his own merit and not by trading on his father's name.

[Neshanic]

40. "To my fucked up son, NADA, nothing, diddly squat."

[October]

41. He's just like GWB -- only has a job because of his father

What an ass!

[laugle]

42. Shame on Chris Wallace. My dad is 84 and is

beginning to lose it. He shouldn't make fun of his dad.

I saw the interview he did with his dad. It was quite touching. I couldn't help but notice how spry and together old Mike still is.

Chris can and will never measure up to his dad. His father was sometimes mean in interviews, but overall he was for justice, people, and the underdog.

I guess the poster above was right, he is just another FOXBOT!!! I like that word!!! Afraid of losing his job!!

[MikeH]

43. Some amateur psychology

Looking at this, I would like to venture some speculation about what might be going on with Chris Wallace and his father. I am no psychologist myself, so you can take this for what it is worth.

I am writing this as one who had a very difficult father, and who has been in therapy dealing with issues having to do with my father. I am also familiar with the works of psychotherapists Alice Miller and Susan Forward, whose writings have been helpful to me. Alice Miller has written a number of books about the profound influence of a person’s childhood and childhood mistreatment on the rest of a person’s life. Susan Forward has written a number of books, including one called Toxic Parents, in which she includes practical suggestions for confronting toxic parents.

Links to Alice Miller's web sites:

http://www.naturalchild.com/alice_miller/

http://www.alice-miller.com/sujet/eng.htm

Links to Susan Forward's web site:

http://www.susanforward.com/


I do not know for sure, but I strongly suspect that Mike Wallace might have been a very difficult father. I would not be at all surprised if he was; I would be surprised if he was not.

Assuming that Mike Wallace was a difficult father, I am speculating that Chris Wallace internalized his father from the time he was little, and never questioned his upbringing. He has, I would guess, always carried his difficult childhood father in his head.

Having grown up, Chris Wallace now has a surrogate father in the person of Fox News and the right wing, which now takes the place of his childhood father. And he now judges others, including his own real father, according to the values and dictates of his surrogate father.

What would be essential for Chris Wallace (or anybody who has had a difficult parent or parents) would be a real awareness of what his father did when he was a child, and, if appropriate, a real confrontation with his father. (An actual confrontation might not be appropriate in all cases, and of course is not possible when a parent is dead.)

Unfortunately – unfortunately especially for Chris Wallace – attacking his father for his father’s political beliefs that go against those of Fox News, i.e. Chris’ surrogate father, is not in any way a genuine confrontation with his real father, or with the father of his childhood.

Again, take this for what it is worth. Just my own opinion.

[ncteechur]

47. If Chris Wallace were only half the journalist, no, half the man of his

father, he might be tolerable. However, Chris needs to remember that he is who he is and where he is ONLY and I cannot emphasize this enough ONLY because of who his father is. Chris is a journalistic eunic!!

[d_b]

49. Honor thy mother; father.

[Boredtodeath]

50. Shades of the Civil War

Father against son, brother against brother..........

How long until the guns are added to this mix? Hell, in Florida, Chris Wallace could just shoot his father for scaring him!

[FlyByNight]

51. The same thing could be said about your...

current employers, Chris: "lost it", needs a "competence hearing". You probably wouldn't be where you are without him. How 'bout a little respect?

:eyes: