chris wallace – Moe Lane

Jack Lew gets called on @BarackObama’s #shutdown nonsense.

Well, this must have been somewhat uncomfortable. Chris Wallace smacking around Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on his party’s shutdown of the government:

“Despite these stakes, the president is refusing to negotiate,” Wallace said. He noted that previous votes to raise the debt ceiling have included campaign finance reform, school prayer, and a nuclear freeze. “What’s unprecedented is not Congress tying strings; what’s unprecedented is a president refusing to negotiate.”

“Frankly, I think your history is wrong,” Lew said. “If you look at the cases where the debt limit was involved, there were many other things attached to the debt limit, but the question of threatening to cause a default of the United States, not until 2011 did it become a positive agenda—”

“With all due respect, your history is wrong,” Wallace responded.

Continue reading Jack Lew gets called on @BarackObama’s #shutdown nonsense.

Why I don’t do own-goals.

While I am course happy to talk to any Republican candidate, and I am more than happy to be handed a big stack of deniable, legitimate* oppo on any Democrat, I have come to the conclusion that participating in anonymous oppo against my fellow-Republicans and conservatives is… unwise. You get controversies. Agitation. People become… uncivil.

Best to avoid that.

Moe Lane

PS: As to why Chris Wallace won’t reveal who gave him the oppo about Cruz (even if he should): that’s because this way everybody will assume that the oppo was sent over by The Most Powerful Republican That I Personally Despise. If it comes out that it was somebody on, say, the staff of a Beltway Bandit political group (which is where I suspect the oppo originated), people would stop getting ticked off at their favorite Hate Object. Remember: Chris Wallace is not our friend.

*I am a partisan hack; I just won’t lie. Which means that I don’t follow LBJ’s famous dictum to the letter; but if it’s at least plausible then sure, make the guy deny that he’s a pigf*cker.

Chris Wallace smacks Dick Durbin over Barack Obama’s debt rhetoric hypocrisy.

I personally think that maybe Chris Wallace shouldn’t have done this to Senator Dick Durbin. Executive summary of “this:” Wallace asked Durbin why it was that President Barack Obama in 2013 declared that our $16 trillion debt was “sustainable,” when Candidate Barack Obama in 2008 declared that $9 trillion debt was “unpatriotic;” and Durbin answered the question by declaring to Wallace that Durbin had had a dry night and did not need to go potty.

Note that I am trying to give the semantic gist of the conversation, here: as Doug Power notes, Durbin didn’t even try to answer the question. Continue reading Chris Wallace smacks Dick Durbin over Barack Obama’s debt rhetoric hypocrisy.

#rsrh Chris Wallace to David Axelrod: ARE we better off then we were, four years ago? [FIXED]

David Axelrod to Chris Wallace: …SQUIRREL!

My wife calls this “political porn,” and it is, kind of… but it’s still pretty funny to watch. And I have to admit, I like Chris Wallace. At least when he’s not asking anyone on my side a question that nobody on my side wants to actually answer. And then breaks out a chart that demonstrates that Chris Wallace was perfectly aware how the original question was going to be, for lack of a better term, ‘answered.’ It’s always a pleasure to see a professional at work, really.

Moe Lane

PS: The answer, Davey, is “No.”

[UPDATE: Yup, that was a blink-and-you-missed-it correction, there. I plead not enough coffee.]

Chris Wallace calls out Mitt Romney.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that maybe Mitt Romney should take seriously this shot across the bow by Fox News host Chris Wallace:

[Mitt Romney] has not appeared on this program or any Sunday talk show since March of 2010. We invited Gov. Romney again this week, but his campaign says he’s still not ready to sit down for an interview.

After all, for just how long has Mitt Romney been running for President by now? 2009? If he’s not ready now to be play you’re-on-the-griddle with Chris Wallace then when the heck will Romney be ready? When Romney’s trying for the nomination again in 2016? Continue reading Chris Wallace calls out Mitt Romney.

Chris Wallace schools Jon Stewart.

You know, I think that I want Chris Wallace to be in charge of the 2012 debates. He deserves a reward for giving Jon Stewart the business in this one:

The fun really starts at about 5 minutes in: Stewart tried what Ace calls the “Clown Nose On / Clown Nose Off” (after stating, more or less, that conservatives are incapable of understanding liberals’ motivations) and Chris Wallace demonstrated that he was expecting precisely that answer. Because, really, nobody is as smart as they think that they are. As Jon Stewart demonstrates, over and over and over again; his repeated insisting that he wasn’t being ruled by his biases kind of lost power with every counter-example that Wallace put up on the screen. But then, it’s rare on television that people are actually grilled on things.

Continue reading Chris Wallace schools Jon Stewart.

Aye, they’ll be sendin’ out the zombies on ye fer this one, Chris-me-lad.

Or, as we in the nautical entrepreneurship business like to call him, Navigating Hugo Dagger.

I do not dare hope that this represents the opening salvo in a full-fledged gutter war between the White House and a major news network.

Crossposted to RedState.