Fair & Balanced© Chris Wallace: Jon Stewart is "somewhat in denial about the bias of his program"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Chris Wallace defended his interview with Jon Stewart--and denied that it was edited out of context.

The interview on "Fox News Sunday" caused a huge ruckus, and Stewart spent two days talking about it on his own show. Most notably, he claimed that Fox News, in editing his 24-minute appearance down to a 14-minute segment, had made him look emotionally unstable and had taken out key portions of the interview.

Speaking to Don Imus on his Thursday radio show, Wallace said that he thought the conversation had gone well.

"He scored some points, I scored some points," he said. He added that Stewart was "somewhat in denial about the bias of his program and more importantly of the mainstream media, and I also think he lives in denial about his ambitions."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/23/chris-wallace-jon-stewart_n_883211.html

[CAG]

1. CAG: "Chris Wallace is "somewhat in denial that he and his faux news

network are corporate schills of the nations robber barons"

[sufrommich]

2. His ambitions for what? To take over the world? nt

[slampoet]

4. Chris does know that this guy has had the same job for like 12 years RIGHT???

yeah.....that wicked cold ambition staying in the same job for a decade or more.....


(I mean crap sure he did two books and the oscars but really not a big cutthroat by any measure)

[PatSeg]

3. "He scored some points, I scored some points"????

What "points" did Wallace think he scored? Did he watch the show? Smirking on camera does not count as a point Chris.

[Zen Democrat]

5. Reminds me of when Bill Clinton told him ... "you can sit there and smirk ...."

Smirking is his stock and trade.

[PatSeg]

6. Oh yes!

I remember that. What a priceless moment. I could actually feel Wallace's stomach doing somersaults, but he should have known that Bill Clinton doesn't "play nice" with the media. He really says what he's thinking.

But to be fair the Chris Wallace, he is ALWAYS smirking. If his father wasn't Mike Wallace, he'd a manager at Dennys somewhere. Er....make that assistant manager along with Luke Russert.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. Here's the clip, in 2 parts:

"You got that little smirk on your face, you think you're so clever..." That exchange comes in part 2.

PART 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DI7u-TytRU&feature=related

PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L2513JFJsY

:patriot:

[PatSeg]

11. Thank you, thank you

I was going to go look it up. It was a memorable TV moment. You usually only see such dialogue in an Aaron Sorkin script.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. The Big Dog takes his first bite of Wallace, and...

...you think maybe he'll settle back into the interview, but he just keeps biting him, and the more Wallace tries to side-step it, the harder teh Dog bites.

All he was trying to do was to get Wallace to admit the fact that he's asking questions that have not been asked of the Bush administration. Wallace refuses, the Dog keeps biting, it is a thing of beauty.

Enjoy!

:patriot:

[PatSeg]

13. Oh I enjoyed it very much

It was even better than I'd remembered. I loved the body language. Any fool KNOWS you don't try that kind of BS with Clinton, every fool except Chris Wallace evidently.

For all his faults, Bill Clinton was a unique politician and I don't suppose we'll see another like him for a long, long time. Fortunately we have YouTube.

[rurallib]

9. Stewart 51, Wallace 3

Wallace got his name right. Still worth a couple points.

[Johonny]

7. Denial is a river at Fox studios

These people don't understand other people can live their life without trying to fit everything into their version of how the world must work.

[OHdem10]

10. Faux is so biased, that if some one utters a remark that is neutral

they see it as Left. They have gone so far right in their
thinking that anything that veers away from "Far RIGHT" is
automatically seen as Left.