BY BILL JUNEAU
On Sunday, December 12, 2021, the 74-year-old Chris Wallace informed viewers at the close of his long running Sunday morning interview show that he would be leaving Fox News where he had hung his hat for 18 years.
He thanked the station for his years there and noted that he was never told what he could do or say on the air. And now, he told viewers, "I am ready for a new adventure."
His new adventure is CNN, Fox's principle rival. It is a cable station which embraces a progressive political philosophy. It is voracious in its anti-Trump philosophy and contends that white supremacy is the cause of virtually all unrest in the USA. Critical race theory in schools is imperative and open borders are a must. At CNN, he says, he will be part of the station's new streaming forum conducting in depth interviews, much like the Fox News streaming now underway.
Frankly, I doubt that many Fox viewers will miss Wallace's mush-mouthed, baritone comments and subtle needling of GOPers, while stroking his liberal friends. More than likely, Fox viewers and pundit-colleagues behind the mike are pleased that the counterfeit Wallace is gone. His popularity among conservatives and fair-minded Americans has been in free fall in response to his glowing reports on President Obama and now Joe Biden, in contrast with his aggression toward Donald Trump.
Like his late dad, Mike Wallace of "60-Minute" fame, Chris is a registered Democrat who sought to please the party of the mule as he lived a charade pretending to be a down-the-middle journalist that never took sides.
Wallace has been around the news business and the electronic media since finishing college at Harvard. His first job was as a reporter in Chicago in the early 1970s. Through the years, he has worked for CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox News. He has anchored some of the biggest news shows, and high profile debates. He built a reputation among his progressive friends as a tough, no nonsense newsman, though other newsmen and viewers recognized that he was a pretender--- a malleable go-to talking head which made Democrats light up in praise as he subtly pushed policies orchestrated by the liberal big guns.
Resigning from ABC, he joined Fox News 18 years ago and commenced the "Fox News Sunday" morning show, which has run-non stop since then. His annual salary at Fox was $7 million, and his net worth today is $25 million. Reportedly, Fox News officials offered to renew his contract with a significant raise in an effort to keep him on staff. Nevertheless, Wallace declined to stay, opting to join his friends at CNN where he can take off the mask and open up full throttle on the station's progressive, anti-Trump, and race baiting with an open border agenda.
Wallace surprised viewers and even his colleagues with the announcement of his resignation from Fox News, but others are saying that he was boiling over because of Tucker Carlson's flaying of Democratic policies which he held so dear; and his comments on the bumbling President Biden. Tucker's enormous popularity made Wallace green-eyed. While Wallace was handing out praise for the senile Joe Biden, and his incompetent Vice President, Kamala Harris, Tucker kept excoriating them for their looney declarations.
In one report, Wallace is quoted as saying that “After eighteen years at Fox, I’m excited about my next chapter. and the new adventure.ahead ....and that I’ll never again have to share an elevator with that unhinged sociopath, Tucker Carlson.”
There's been no response from Carlson on Wallace's attack, at least so far. It is assumed, however, that Tucker lumps Wallace into the media crowd which he describes as "cringing animals, not deserving of respect."
It has always appeared evident in his reporting that he was liberal and cut from the same mold as his father and at Fox, he stood strong alongside liberal Shepard Smith and shared with him a disdain for President Trump. Smith left Fox for CNN in 2019 after 23 years at the station and conservative viewers applauded his exit. In leaving, Smith said he objected to the untrue news being delivered by Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson. It was reported that Smith reached a breaking point after Carlson began making fun of him on-air.
Wallace did his best to denigrate President Trump who had said that he considered Wallace as "nasty and obnoxious." Trump saw Wallace as a "wannabe of his father" who had been a part of the media for about seven decades, mostly on CBS and had always found a way to curtsy to the Democratic Party, which revered him and treated him as one of its very own.
In a one- on-one interview with President Trump in July of 2020, Wallace did his best to embarrass the President, but only managed to make himself look petty and partisan. He was always looking for that "gotcha" but could not find it. At one point Wallace asked Trump, as commander in chief, if he favored changing the names of several army bases because their names paid undeserved tribute to confederate generals The named bases were upsetting to black Americans, said Wallace. Trump said that those bases had existed in the United States for many years--through World War I and II, and Korea and Vietnam, indicating that there would be no changes by him. He asked Wallace if he thought a base "should be named in honor of Al Sharpton."
As some see it, Chris Wallace, the registered Democrat and Donald Trump detractor, belongs at CNN where he can rant and rave about Trump and racism, and the need for open borders; and he will receive plaudits and praise from the progressive left and powerful Democrats.
The mask is off and he will be comfortable at CNN with left wing stalwarts like the caucasian-hating Joy Reid and Don Lemon; and the sagacious, German-born, Wolf Blitzer. Chris Cuomo has been fired for his misconduct, though some predict that eventually he will be back. For legal questions, Wallace can look to Jeffrey Toobin for answers. Toobin, the station's legal guru, has been reinstated at the station following an eight-month suspension after he was caught masturbating in full view of colleagues during a zoom session.
Yes, at CNN, Chris Wallace is home.
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