WALLACE Demolishes GOP Talking Point.

[kpete]

WALLACE: "A dozen people listened in on the phone call and a number of them were immediately upset..."

Steve Scalise: "Those were Schiff's witnesses."

WALLACE: "No, sir, they are career foreign service officers and these are people who worked in the Trump administration."

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[blueinredohio]

1. Wallace will be the next one gone.

[usaf-vet]

5. Chris Wallace, Judge Andrew Napolitano, and Bret Baier have all misspoken with in the last week.

They all have strayed from the Trump talking points. If they keep it up their days will be numbered.

Pink slips could be arriving soon.

[luvtheGWN]

9. No. They give cover to the Murdoch boys

because they are newscasters. The idiots in prime time host "opinion" shows. So when anyone complains about "bias", the Murdochs can point to Wallace and Baier who provide the actual news.

[usaf-vet]

32. POINT!

[AlexSFCA]

53. what about Shep?

[soldierant]

45. Napolitano has been fact-based for months

However, as a legal expert, he talks about law, period. Any other hosts on at the time are all shocked, but not being lawyers, can't really dispute, and get over it an back to peddling lies as fast as they can. But this is something new for Wallace and even newer for Baier. Baier got twitter attacked like Tippi Hedren over his comment.I think he's the most vulnerable.

[NotASurfer]

14. If he is, Meet The Press could stand a new host

Somebody to uphold the Tim Russert tradition of knowing facts and revealing ignorance, stupidity, and willing rejection of reality. I miss his ability to make an unprepared/ignorant politician or anybody regurgitating talking points look and sound reveal themselves in full, confused, sweating, squirming, embarrassed glory. And it was a wonderful thing to see the really good and capable people who actually did know what they were talking about. Political party didn't matter; if you knew what you were talking about, it showed, and if you were an idiot, you walked away looking like an idiot.

Could Wallace handle it?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. I think I may have been watching a different Tim Russert than you were. nt

[ananda]

19. Me too. He was awful.

But I guess Chuck Todd is worse.

How many degrees of awful can we stand?

The bar seems to be set pretty high.

[Demsrule86]

40. I loved Tim Russert...can't stand Chick Todd.

[DallasNE]

44. Tim Russert's Favorite Guest

Was Dick Cheney. Couldn't stand Russert for that reason.

[Demsrule86]

55. I just turned it off...he had better guests.

[NotASurfer]

24. Or maybe by comparison to Dave Gregory and The Chucktodd since

Looking back I can remember a Russert interview torpedo the 1990s presidential aspirations of John Kasich, just by circling repeatedly to Kasich's ignorance of whatever he was trying to talking-point his way through. If Todd did that interview, it would have been with deference and minimal mention of how reality differed from talking points. That set the image in my mind: you better be knowledgeable and able to think on your feet. I don't get that from MTP today.

Maybe it is by comparison, but it still seems like now people show up expecting to yammer talking points without being seriously challenged unlike what I remember.

[True Blue American]

27. I was watching the same Russert

You were. He was so far right before he died suddenly I quit watching!

And they took David Gregory off for Chuckles who is the poorest excuse of a host ever.

Wallace, Smith, even Bret Bauer would be better.

[calimary]

21. Tim Russert is not the paragon he's presumed to have been.

By many. Including me.

I did respect Tim Russert’s work. For a long time. Until I heard how he went to some cocktail party in Georgetown and, when he spoke to a GOP party guest, he briefly opened his jacket wide enough to flash the bush/cheney campaign button he was wearing “under cover”. An attempt at a physical dog whistle, I suspect, to reassure said GOP guest that he was secretly a “friendly.” And this was DURING the 2000 campaign.

When I heard that, I lost all respect for Tim Russert. He even talked about this on the air, snickering and with a devilish grin (“hee-hee-hee! I’m a sneaky little so-&-so, ain’t I!” Chuckle-chuckle wink-wink)

[NotASurfer]

23. That led to an interesting circular journey on Google

I hadn't heard that assertion about being a secret GOP asset before, so I threw "was Tim Russert a GOP supporter" at Google.

Wikipedia had nothing but Google in turn had an entry from something called Conservapedia

https://www.conservapedia.com/Tim_Russert

I figured a right wing site would maybe mention the cocktail party, but their reference to the GOP support angle is this:

On the liberal side, he is attacked for, as a Democratic Underground (sic) stated, being "...anything BUT an objective journalist."[7]

Didn't find anything else, so far. The link to DU in their references goes nowhere, http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Time%20for%20change/31 , though a RW website might be linking to an alt reality version of DU.

Still digging

[True Blue American]

28. Honestly, I do not need

A Google search to know what Russert was. I heard him.

[wnylib]

41. Neither do I. Russert was from my region. He is

still beloved here, well remembeted, and well respected for his work as a Dem who served in NY politics for Patrick Moynahan and Mario Cuomo, father of our current governor.

I used to love when a guest on his show made a claim that Russert easily disproved with a film clip of the guest. He did that often.

I believe the Russert shows that I watched and his record in NY Dem politics over anything a RW source says about him.

[True Blue American]

48. Russert was great in the beginning,

By the end I quit watching him, but was shocked he died so young.. the show has never recovered. I do not watch it.

But after an uplifting Service at Early Church I try to keep the reality of what we live in away for the day.

[calimary]

56. It was from an interview I saw, likely either on NBC or

MSNBC. He described going to this cocktail party during election season. And I still remember the devilish grin that took over his face when he described running into some GOP figure and when he believed nobody was looking, opened his jacket to reveal the “secret” bush/cheney campaign button so only his pal could see it. Like fraternity brothers flashing the secret code in a mixed crowd, wink-wink.

I remember feeling my jaw drop.

Okay, there’s currying favor with various sides and sources so they’ll come on your show and they’ll allow you access, but then you portray yourself as objective and not instinctively favoring one side over another?

I watched the interview and couldn’t help noticing that he added nothing along the lines of “and on the inside of my jacket on the other side, I had a Gore/Lieberman campaign pin to flash to friends I knew were gonna be at the same cocktail party who were Democrats. Nothing. He wasn’t doing any stealth “both sides/BOTH SIIIIIIIDES!!!!!” schtick that night.

I can never get around that one whenever Tim Russert’s name comes up. When he died, I watched the lofty, worshipful coverage of his career and what he meant to NBC News and its political coverage over many years of elections and administrations. They all spoke of him in hushed tones. I could not. I couldn’t get that “shhhhhh, don’t tell anybody, but just know I’m one of you (wink-wink)” story outta my mind. Still can’t.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Scalise really twisting reality & Chris Wallace rising to the occasion

[Roland99]

3. Then bring on more witnesses

Let’s hear from Bolton, Mulvaney, and Twitler himself

[Takket]

4. I'm sure if Scalise wants drumpf to testify and set the record straight

That Schiff will be happy to let him be called in.

[True Blue American]

49. Welch already invited

Trump to visit. Nancy seconded the offer yesterday!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. Scalise, there's another one I hate. n/t

[TNNurse]

7. He isn't even sane on gun control after being shot.

[LittleGirl]

8. Indeed. Scary guy. Eom

[True Blue American]

29. I remember Scalise

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After getting the best Medical care in the world standing with Trump in front of the WhiteHouse gleefully laughing that they had just voted to take health care away from millions.

He also bragged about God saving him. Lower than a snake in the grass.

[Progressive Jones]

10. He fears his voter base. They'll tar and feather him if he even suggests gun legislation. nt

[smirkymonkey]

16. The only tragedy there is that the shooter wasn't quite skilled enough to

complete the job. This is one bastard who deserves to be gone. But he bounced back and doubled down, making the country a more dangerous place for the rest of us.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

38. The conservative brain, I guess. I don't understand it.

[lonely bird]

42. Conservative brain?

Isn’t that an oxymoron?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

52. Lolol!!

Point taken!

[The_Counsel]

11. What Point Is Scalise Supposed to Be Making Exactly?

“Schiff’s witnesses?”

As in witnesses for the prosecution? Somehow that’s a problem now?

If they are fact witnesses that prove whether or not there was wrongdoing, why WOULDN’T the committee want to talk to him/her? Just as if there were fact witnesses that prove there WASN’T any wrongdoing they should be hearing from them as well.

But the White House doesn’t want ANYONE speaking with this committee, which is VERY telling. “Illegitimate proceeding” my hairy brown buttocks. If you’ve done nothing wrong, and you have evidence and witness to that end, you should be providing that, Mr. Trump. What you’ve done so far is NOT the behavior of an innocent man, though...

[JHB]

13. He's not making a point so much as playing buzzword bingo

The audience will hear the key words, fill in what they want, and be properly "triggered".

[stopdiggin]

18. for what it's worth

the GOP wanted to bring in a bunch of their "own" witnesses -- most of whom were completely extraneous to the investigation, focused on conspiracy theory, and designed to derail and muddle the hearings -- and Schiff said, "Nyet"

[The_Counsel]

25. ...And Schiff Was SUPPOSED to Say "No," so Good for Him.

Like I said: the fact that the GOP couldn’t come up with a single FACT witness—and not some conspiracy theorist nut—that could prove Trump’s innocence in all this is very telling.

Too bad the Constition actually PROTECTS him here, or he’d have been carted off to jail weeks ago.

[Stuart G]

12. Deep within Chris Wallace there is .."Truth".. It is ingrained in him and he can't get rid of it.

Some don't know that Chris Wallace is the son of Mike Wallace. Mike had that same trait.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Wallace

[True Blue American]

51. I knew he was Mike's Son.

Surprised he showed up at Fox. But he does a fine job.

Fox needs to clean out their litter box. Jeanne, Hannity, Tucker, Dobbs! Who used to be a decent person, and the rest.

[Marcuse]

17. It figures.

[Mandeville]

20. Unfortunately Scalise is my representative

He is one of the reasons Louisiana has such a bad reputation...except for our newly reelected Democratic governor.
Scalise is a twat!

[Hekate]

22. Welcome to DU, Mandeville. You can edit your post via a link on the screen below it...

Because, despite all the F-bombs, there is certain language we actually don't allow. Calling a man a demeaning word for a woman or woman's body-part falls into that category.

You're welcome.

[Doodley]

26. Specifically which word and which body part?

[True Blue American]

30. Come on now.

The poster is trying to help a newbie.

[Hekate]

35. Yes I am, because the alternative is alerting on it forthwith, & if it's still there tomorrow I will

[True Blue American]

46. You are quite right.

Better a warning for a newbie than report.

[lonely bird]

43. May one suggest to Mandeville...

the term “pus bucket” to replace what he used?

[flying_wahini]

36. Welcome to DU!

[progressoid]

39. Welcome Mandeville!

[Tarheel_Dem]

31. How long before Chris Wallace has to follow Shep Smith out the door? Kudos to his bravery. nt

[True Blue American]

47. Chris sure knocked Scalise

Back on his heels yesterday when he tried to call the witnesses,” Schiff’s!” No Sir, those are dedicated Public Servants!

[OnlinePoker]

34. When people on Fox "News" see and speak the truth, you know Trump is doomed. n/t

[Iggo]

37. Chris Wallace. (n/t)

[Cha]

50. KR!

[zentrum]

54. May Chris start to be

...a little more like his father.