Chris Wallace: "Whatever Bush did after 9/11 was done to protect this country"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008 11:32 EST
Fox's Chris Wallace: Bush is not a crook

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/12/02/wallace/



WASHINGTON -- Being fair and balanced is, evidently, a 24-hour-a-day kind of gig.

At a special screening Monday of "Frost/Nixon," Ron Howard's film treatment of the award-winning play, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace decided to take on the liberal Hollywood elite as only one of Fox News's own can. The screening, sponsored by Universal Pictures and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, drew a crowd of political reporters and operatives (invitations were handled by the Glover Park Group, a big Democratic consulting firm). After the movie, Howard, playwright Peter Morgan, writer James Reston, Jr. (who's a character in the film) and historian Robert Dallek had a panel discussion about Richard Nixon.

Howard -- who isn't exactly shy about his own political beliefs -- made some glib remark about how he thought the generation that lived through Watergate would never allow such abuses of power to happen again on their watch. "So that led to some frustrations that I've experienced over the last few years," he said.

A few similar remarks later, it was time for an audience q-and-a. Reston said something about how he was hoping this movie would show younger viewers how bad Nixon's crimes were, because "the younger generation" feels Nixon was "railroaded" out of office for offenses far less outrageous than those of George W. Bush. Wallace, apparently, thought Reston agreed with those hypothetical younger viewers, and he decided he'd heard enough.

"Yeah, I respectfully would like to disagree with that," Wallace said, taking the mic like any other member of the audience. (All the quotes are courtesy of a write-up by Jon Ward of the Washington Times, who -- unlike me -- thought to pull out a tape recorder for the panel discussion.) "It trivializes Nixon's crimes and completely misrepresents what George W. Bush did. Whatever George W. Bush did was after the savage attack of 9/11, in which 3,000 Americans were killed, it was done in service of trying to protect this country. I'm not saying that you have to agree with everything he did, but it was all done in the service of trying to protect this country and keep us safe. And the fact is that we sit here so comfortably, and the country has not been attacked again since 9/11."

[tularetom]

1. That should get him a nice raise from News Corp.

But Mike Wallace is probably writing the twit out of his will as we speak/

[kid a]

2. AHHHHH*bullshit*CHOOOOO!

[Parche]

3. they never seem to realize

that he sat there and did nothing, with a deer in the headlight look
and it DID happen on his watch, no matter who you think did 9/11, i personally think the CIA
was responsible...but it was on his watch
he was the fukin president

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. Transcript: Bin Laden determined to strike in US

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo/



August 6, 2001: "Enough a this readin' stuff, let's go an' watch us some cartoons."

[burythehatchet]

4. Of course, Chris, that was his intention all along. It was simply a stroke of free market luck

that landed billions in the pockets of your crime family members.

[DemoTex]

5. What about what Bu$h did NOT do BEFORE 9/11 Mister Wallace?

Just sit down and have another glass of Kool-aid, you asshat.

[RavensChick]

27. Chris Wallace is a very lost soul

in the Faux Noise cesspool of pricks that don't know jack about the truth! That's why I cheered Bill Clinton for blasting him in that interview not too long ago. That's a classic example of how stupid Chris has gotten over the years! Trust me, listening to that asshole has not caused me to lose any asleep.

[Idealism]

6. "the country has not been attacked again since 9/11"

When was the LAST sucessful attack on our country before 9/11? Seven years is an eternity in US history according to geniuses like this.

[Drunken Irishman]

8. 1993?

But yeah, all this talk about there not being an attack on America since 9/11 ignores the fact the country has had a pretty long history post-WWII of no real domestic attacks.

[Idealism]

9. What buildings got blown up in 93?

I said successful...

Give up?

December 7, 1941

[Drunken Irishman]

24. It was fairly successful in the sense it killed people.

[Fumesucker]

14. One word.... Anthrax

Someone attacked our Congress with a WMD, that happened after 9/11/2001.

[Idealism]

18. That was some nut that lost his job

It was a domestic issue, we weren't attacked by foreign terrorists or an outside country (at least so far its been proved)

[Fumesucker]

19. It was an attack..

And it was definitely terrorism..

Remember duct tape and plastic sheeting?

[Idealism]

22. By an American who had mental problems

Not having to do with an outside entity, sorry.

[Fumesucker]

28. What difference does that make?

An attack with WMDs is an attack.

The dead are just as dead as they would have been if the attack had come from Al Qaeda.

And we don't know for sure who did the attack yet, there are gaping holes in the FBI case. Not to mention they were equally sure that another person did the crime a few years ago, then lost a lawsuit over it.

[yardwork]

32. What difference does it make if it's an outside or inside entity? The dead people are still dead.

I'd like a government that actually tried to keep me safe, period. I don't really care if the "terrorists" are from another country or right here in my own state - if they're trying to kill me, they're a threat.

[yardwork]

31. That's what the Bush administration tells us.

If they told you that wolverines made good house pets, would you believe them?

[OnyxCollie]

29. Oklahoma City bombing, April 19, 1995. nt

[yardwork]

30. Anthrax.

Just sayin.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. His dad must be embarrassed to call him son.

[kenny blankenship]

11. I don't think Fascists have ever claimed anything else

Their justification is always the purity of their motives, and their motives arise invariably from the most noble, selfless, and patriotic impulses that are felt by the strong for the weak. They only want to protect us. That's ALL they've ever done.

[lpbk2713]

12. When Shit-for-Brains was in the TANG it was also time for him to protect this country.

And what did he do? He turned tail and said let
the other suckers go defend this country.

[polichick]

13. You'd have to be an imbecile to believe that at this point.

[gratuitous]

15. polichick, I give you . . .

Chris Wallace, imbecile.

But then, you knew that.

[polichick]

25. LOL

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

16. What Bush did after 9/11 was to loot this country in as many ways

as possible.

[Hepburn]

17. Yep, sure ~~ rolling eyes ~~

I have no doubt that reading THE PET GOAT was totally done to protect the U.S.

:sarcasm:

[azmouse]

20. That makes me want to throw up.

Wallace is a fool.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

21. Using the GOP's email instead of the gov't's TOTALLY saved our asses from another attack!

[Javaman]

23. ergo: everything he did before was to ruin it. 9/11 thus was an inside job. nt

[Terran]

26. The myth that 3000 Americans died on 9/11/01 is firmly in place I see.

In fact, 2529 Americans died; 209 people who died were of other nationalities representing more than 40 nations. I wish people would shut the fuck up about "3000 Americans".

source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1979607.cms

[lib2DaBone]

33. BUSH KNEW. 911 was a false flag attack. (end of message)

[damntexdem]

34. Yes, reading "My Pet Goat" certainly did protect this country.

It did in that it kept Dubya from doing anything else at the time. Unfortunately, it didn't prevent him from totally trashing the country thereafter.

[zbdent]

35. when the righties go into the terrorist attacks under Clinton, they have to go to

non-U.S. soil attacks ... which opens a whole can of worms on "attacks under Bush43" ... and Iraq was one big "terrorist attack" by their definitions as applied to Clinton ...

[SammyWinstonJack]

36. !

:silly:

[cureautismnow]

37. Over 4,000 Americans were killed in vain in Iraq.

That is NOT protecting our country since 9/11. In fact, Iraq is a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. They all died for his lies, while needlessly weakening our forces.

On 9/11 itself, Junior did absolutely nothing to protect our country from an "army" of 19 nitwits. Not one damn thing.

OTOH, Bunnypants has diplomatically protected us from our archenemy - the Easter Bunny.