Chris Wallace: Jon Stewart 'In Denial About Bias of His Program and Mainstream Media'
It's been four days since Chris Wallace and Jon Stewart squared off on "Fox News Sunday" and people still can't stop talking about it.
FBN's Don Imus brought it up with Wallace Thursday, and the FNS host said of Comedy Central's feature attraction, "I think he lives somewhat in denial about the bias of his program and of the, more importantly, of the mainstream media" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
DON IMUS, HOST: So you had this interview with Jon Stewart and I thought he was good and I thought that you were good.
CHRIS WALLACE: That's exactly the way I thought about it and I know it's so interesting because people -- a few things, first of all, if you were a Liberal, you thought that he just wiped the floor with me and if you were Conservative you thought I wiped the floor with him, and the fact was, I think, it was exactly as you say. I think this was a sensible conversation.
He scored some points, I scored some points, it was a good conversation. We left on a very friendly basis, you know, I think he lives somewhat in denial about the bias of his program and of the, more importantly, of the mainstream media. And I think he also lives in denial about his ambitions because he's oh, just a comedian. I don't think he is just a comedian.
IMUS: That's nonsense.
WALLACE: I don't think he wants to be just a comedian.
IMUS: He's claiming you edited the interview to make him look bad.
WALLACE: Well, I think that the -- if he looked bad, it was his fault. We did edit it, but you know, the fact is, people say, well, yeah, but look at the full version. The reason the full version, that anybody sees-- has seen the full version because we put it on. We weren't hiding anything, we put it on our website, very much as he does, when you do an interview, he often edits it and quite frankly, Jon was filibustering and we went on and on and we had to cut it down, it was still 14 minutes longer than we intended and if you want to watch the full interview although I can't imagine why anybody would, 24 minutes, it's there on Fox News Sunday website.
IMUS: Seventeen till the hour, I happen to like him and have for years. One, I think he's brilliant and two, there's nobody -- few people who can take a piece of material that they all come up with that deliver better than he does. But spare me the nonsense about my job is a lot harder than your job and I mean, it's just -- you know, it's a hard job. Try to pay a mortgage when you don't have a job, that's a hard job. Trying to be funny about the news is not hard. Shut up about that.
And two, you played a clip of him doing his Amos and Andy voice, a phrase you employed, regarding Herman Cain and my question the next day was, that name one other white performer in the media who could do that and get by with it.
WALLACE: You're exactly right and particularly --
IMUS: Why didn't you ask him that?
WALLACE: Imagine a Conservative, imagine if Glenn Beck did that or Sean Hannity did that, the left would be with pitchforks and torches at the gates, demanding that they be drawn and quartered. No, there's no question about it. I agree with you though, I think he's a funny guy. I think he's a decent guy. I think--
IMUS: He is.
WALLACE: Misguided in some areas, but genuinely funny and I would love to have him back and love to be on his show and I think both of those things will happen.
IMUS: And denying that he has some sort of ideological agenda, he probably doesn't in his heart think he does, but he has to recognize that that's -- that the perception is reality, by the way. And that's--
WALLACE: And you come up with that yourself, perception is reality.
IMUS: I'll whip your ass the next time I see you if you don't be quiet. I've been lifting weights, I'm going to hurt you.
WALLACE: Here is the deal when he talks about -- this is interesting, a telling moment when he said what do you think I am in my -- in the highest aspirations? Edward R. Murrow or Mark Twain? And actually, what I didn't say, and I didn't have the wit to think in that split second is it's rather remarkable that he would compare himself to either.
Not really. Every liberal on television thinks he's Edward R. Murrow.
Just ask Keith Olbermann.
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Mark Twain?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 5:04pm.
Mark Twain? Edward R Murrow?
No, he's Barry O'bama's Ed McMahon.
CA
Submitted by well99 on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 5:35pm.
At least Ed was funny once in awhile.
Just a note:The CIC needs help in the memory dept..Well so do I.
http://blogs.cbn.com/WhiteHouseWrap/archive/2011/06/23/commander-in-chie...
"During his remarks to troops at Fort Drum today, the President was reminiscing about the times he has spent with the US Army's 10th Mountain Division, when he got something wrong.
"Throughout my service, first as a senator and then as a presidential candidate and then as a President, I’ve always run into you guys. And for some reason it’s always in some rough spots.
First time I saw 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq. When I went back to visit Afghanistan, you guys were the first ones there. I had the great honor of seeing some of you because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously."
The problem is, Jared Monti was killed in action in Afghanistan, on June 21, 2006. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously, September 17, 2009. President Obama handed the framed medal to his parents, Paul and Janet Monti. He and the First Lady comforted them in the Oval Office following the ceremony."
→ Another joke from Barry O'bama
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 5:41pm.
"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong." - BHO
The guy has a keen sense of comedy. Certainly funnier than Stewart.
GMTA, CA
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 5:44pm.
.
Tru Dat, UpNorth
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 5:52pm.
"Obama" and "patriot" are mutually exclusive.
CA
Submitted by well99 on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 6:55pm.
Stagnate water is funnier that Stewie.that is why he has to constantly tell people he is a comedian.
I think we all know
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 5:43pm.
how the LSM would treat Bush if he'd done this. I'm sure the pres was confused, seeing corpsemen all over, not to mention all the fallen heroes who were honored on Memorial Day who were actually there, looking on.
What. A. Douche.
UpNorth
Submitted by well99 on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 6:59pm.
It would be on 24/7 .I think he was confused because his better half wasn't there.The teleprompter was being repaired.
It's pretty easy to be funny
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 5:06pm.
It's pretty easy to be funny when you have a team of writers writing your jokes.
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If Stewart 'looked bad', it's
Submitted by Slyrr on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 5:26pm.
If Stewart 'looked bad', it's because he's just another liberal log squeezed out of the Democrat party's nether regions after their steady diet of lies, hate, bigotry, and taxpayer dollars.
"WALLACE: I don't think he
Submitted by Satchmo on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 5:28pm.
"WALLACE: I don't think he wants to be just a comedian."
Then quit legitimizing him by bringing him on these types of shows.
Yo, Pervert.
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 10:32pm.
Wallace said he doesn't think "he, (ya know, Stewart), wants to be just a comedian". Not that he, (Wallace), considers him "just a comedian".
With that in mind, your post is completely off base and just shows your stupidity. (I won't give you the benefit of the doubt of ignorance. You;re a sick idiot).
If Jon wants to remain " just a comedian", he should decline appearing on these shows. The fact that he does appear shows his true intentions.
Now go back to sleep and fantasize about diddling your relations. Sicko.
Who knew such a simple
Submitted by Satchmo on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:21am.
Who knew such a simple sentence would be over your head?
Inore the Stupid Satchmo Paultard troll.
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:43am.
He still will not explain how it is he claims to be against abortion and yet advocates the removal of ALL abortion laws including the banning of late term abortions.
How many months does he think he will not have to square the two posittions?
I'm impressed with Wallace, that he would say
Submitted by ekslib on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 5:34pm.
Jon Stewart is 'In Denial About Bias of His Program and Mainstream Media,'
in such an unambiguous way.
Bias
Submitted by hayate1 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 2:12am.
Yea, Stewart is biased towards facts and real data. He is not like the Fox guy who is biased in favor of theory irrespective of reality, especially if it is not supportive of a point. That's why there is so little real world data coming out of fox. Facts just don't support their points.
"Facts are not decided by how many people believe them. Truth is not determined by how loudly it is shouted."
I don't suppose
Submitted by theduck6 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 6:55am.
you can back up your BS, can you? I didn't think so.
Anyone watching The Daily Show can see in is almost horizontally left leaning and the big 3 nets have ALL been caught with their hands in the liberal cookie jar on multiple occasions. Can you give me a reference where FOX got something wrong or was guilty of slanting the hard news? Not that you had wished they had ignored facts, that they omitted facts, ignored stories or outright lied.
You can't rely on any single source for news and must draw your own conclusions based on your core beliefs. Assuming one has a core belief beyond "give me what I want when I want it even if I haven't earned it". There's no shortage of that cultivated entitlement mentality.
who would have thought...
Submitted by jamesWelsh2012 on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 5:53pm.
The typical Right Wing attack.
Wallace and the Faux Newsers.
I think Wallace's feelings might have taken a bit of a hit.
It must be hard to try following in your fathers footsteps and realize how far short you have fallen.
I would be fighting like him to save face.
What a shame.
No self-respecting Journalist ends up lasting very long at Fox.
It must eat away at anyone with a conscience.
Funny was Bush!!!
There was never a dumber president.
You can't fake being that dumb.
And that is always what made his so funny.
It was like turning on the Tv and watching a fool contorting himself to stick either foot into his mouth.
Shame really that the Right does that repeatedly to its practitioners.
As far as Wallace is concerned (and for that matter for many on the Right) they wouldn't no biased if they watched it 24/7.
Hey look James, you're on
Submitted by tcm14 on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 5:58pm.
Hey look James, you're on YouTube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMEe7JqBgvg
James, meet Satchmo,
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 5:59pm.
aka Incestmo, Pervmo. Now why don't the two of you run along and play?
New Troll, same old tired
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 6:06pm.
New Troll, same old tired kool-aid
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Hey lookie, a sonnet-writer.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 6:17pm.
Go forsooth yourself.
YAWN......................
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 6:55pm.
Same old tired liberal tripe...."faux news..yak, yak ,yak....No self respecting jurno...yak, yak, yak.....Bush was dumb...yak, yak, yak..............Give it a rest troll.....as a matter of fact why dont you guys just make an audio loop....same TIRED CRAP. Or are you a parrot??
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
james. You should have seen
Submitted by Zippy on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 8:08pm.
james.
You should have seen the Chris Wallace interview of Mike Wallace.
Chris has been awarded 2x the awards of Mike. And Mike was a condescending A-hole.
During the whole interview, you could see Chris try to have a normal talk. But, Mike stuck to his guns.
Just another condescending A-Hole, Defeatocrat, loser much like you.
By the way. Get your head out. Watch Fox News Learn something. They do tell both sides. Ask Bob Bechtel.
And George Bush did not need a teleprompter to talk to America.
And he continues to "Speak truth to Power".
Whatever that is??????????
Oh look, another troll.
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 10:36pm.
With an idiot rant like you've posted, with misspellings, bad grammar, out of context musings showing off your stupidity, you really should refrain from impugning anyone's intelligence.
Might come off looking stupid or something.
I think it's getting as little crowded
Submitted by theduck6 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 6:58am.
in that thought process in your head. Too many voices saying the same thing at the same time and doing so badly.
Seek help.
If you can't fake being dumb
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:25am.
then you have no excuse for posting these slogans.
Comedy CYA
Submitted by tcm14 on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 5:55pm.
This isn't the first time Stewart has hidden behind the "I'm just a comic" line. Whenever he is on The O'Reilly Factor, EVERY time O'Reilly makes a good point, Stewart quickly starts making jokes and acting goofy.
He wants to be a comic when it is necessary to cover his ass.
Wallace says he "scored
Submitted by tombaker on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 7:05pm.
Wallace says he "scored points" for Conservatives.....which is fine....but its total BS to think that Wallace is impartial or not a partisan reporter. Wallace is a conservative advocate, who is trying to score points against someone who he considers a liberal advocate. Wallace has a position, he is trying to score points for....he is not a straight up journalist....he is a player.
tomparrot
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 7:16pm.
SQUAWK! Faux News!
SQUAWK! Impartial!
SQUAWK! I hate Palin!
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Troll-> Free Stinker if you
Submitted by tombaker on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 7:11pm.
Troll-> Free Stinker if you can not understand what was written, don't cut and paste, you nonsense.
Wallace was acting as an partisan, not a reporter, not a journalist, he was a commenting from his perspective of being a Conservative....great....but don't piss on the viewers and tell them its raining.
Free Stinker you signature says in Arabic that you are a Mole or a void or some sort of a Persian sexual celibacy ....I don't care for you or your agenda, but get off me.
Google did find your preference http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%84, cut and paste still works. Get your perversion off me regardless
Your stupid is showing
Submitted by Rukus on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:57pm.
From you own linky thingy: 3: free, unrestrained, unencumbered
Stupid is as stupid types... I give you Tom-dumb-as-dirt-Baker
That TomParrot has been
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 9:23pm.
That TomParrot has been driven insane by his PDS
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Lol Free
Submitted by shawn. on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 10:26pm.
Can you imagine his head explode if a Bachman/Palin ticket won the oval office next year
Shawn
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 10:47pm.
Indeed. We will hear 3 loud POPS! PoopTech, GassyGuy, and TomParrot. In that order.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
LOL!
Submitted by Rukus on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 11:58pm.
You got that right buddy! ROTFLMAO!!!
Regardless of how your lame brain translates Free's---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 10:14pm.
signature or tag line, tombaker, your stupid assed posts reveal you to be not only a fool whose brain has been further rotted by AMBPDS*, but an idiot stupid enough to label Chris Wallace a partisan conservative.
Wallace has been very careful to walk the line of interrogation in his interviews carefully enough so that his political beliefs are not apparent. Only a fool like yourself would claim Wallace is conservative in either his outlook or his presentations.
Like most brickbat dipsh*ts, you are too ignorant to glom onto the fact that Jon Stewart's exceptionally liberalistic statements tend to make anyone within range of him, who happens to be talking sense, to appear conservative in comparison to Stewart's liberal squawking.
You, tombaker, are a putz.
Now, impress all who scan these threads by telling me, as you did Free, to "get off" you; then note subsequently how successful your demand turns out to be as far as how it affects either Free or me.
MD
* Acute Mind Blowing Palin Derangement Syndrome
Thumbs up MD
Submitted by Rukus on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 12:00am.
Fish in a barrel buddy.
tombaker
Submitted by well99 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 9:29pm.
Your wrong but you have the right to be.Just because you say it doesn't make it so.Stewie is a habitual liar and got called on it.Wallace has always been a tough interviewer.Con/Lib he ask tough questions.Stewies is a agenda driven wantabe political player who sips from the sewage of the left then spews it out.If he is called out on it Stewie cry's but I am a comedian.Comedians make you laugh.Stewie is a Epic Fail in this regard.
E.R. Morrow
Submitted by Marat on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 7:40pm.
Why Morrow comparison? I never thought he was funny at all? :)
"...I think he lives somewhat
Submitted by classicliberal2 on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 10:24pm.
"...I think he lives somewhat in denial about the bias of his program..."
To the contrary, he openly admitted his bias. His point was that he is present to make people laugh, not to push a political agenda. His bias is always going to be present in what he does, but it's not the point of what he does. He follows in the footsteps of George Carlin and Richard Pryor, not Ed Murrow and Walter Cronkite. I don't understand why so many conservatives have such a problem understanding this--it's as if English was their second language, and they never did well in it.
Sorry, you're absolutely right.
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 10:39pm.
We must have missed that he's a comedian because we were under the impression that a comedian should be funny.
I suspect there is plenty you don't understand
Submitted by ckc1227 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 2:37am.
"I don't understand why so many conservatives have such a problem understanding this--it's as if English was their second language, and they never did well in it."
It's not conservatives who say they get their news from John Stewart and the Daily Show. So you might want to look in a mirror and ask yourself and your liberal cohorts why you don't understand what's going on.
Thanks for demonstrating the
Submitted by classicliberal2 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 2:47am.
Thanks for demonstrating the very point I was making in that portion of my remarks you quoted.
ignore the classicTurd troll.
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 3:13am.
This troll still can't figure out how or why we fill out the Subject line despite --
He can't show us any respect by forcing us to read the first part of his Stupid twice, we don't have to show the tinest shred of respect in return
Point!!
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:27am.
And polls have found that a certain group of people are increasingly only getting their "news" from the Daily Show.
I think he's brilliant...
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 11:00pm.
Hey iman, you're not too sharp yourself, so how would you know and further who would care that you think the leftist bozo is "brilliant".
I can hear a TV in another
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 11:15pm.
I can hear a TV in another room with CNN playing, and they're talking about Lindsey Lohan. What was Jon Liebowitz saying about Fox viewers being uninformed?
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Stewart rips CNN all the
Submitted by bob loblaw on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:57am.
Stewart rips CNN all the time, I know that this is likely the only place you watch Stewart so you think all he does is bash Fox News and republicans, but if you watched his show for a week you would know that he makes fun of everybody, including Obama, democrats, CNN, MSNBC, he has been really hard on CNN lately.
Did this guy ever formally
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 11:18pm.
Did this guy ever formally change his name from Liebowitz to Stewart or is even his name one giant lie?
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Liebowitz, Liebowitz, Liebowitz...
Submitted by classicliberal2 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 3:07am.
To make explicit what so many of you are making such a point of repeatedly hinting at, yes, Jon Stewart is, in fact, of Jewish descent, so you can all stop bringing this up in this ridiculous wink-wink, nudge-nudge manner. In spite of what some of you seem to think, his Jewishness does NOT refute everything he's ever said. It doesn't refute ANYTHING he's ever said, and if I may be allowed to express a liberal opinion for a moment, those of you who want to continually wallow in that sort of trash disgrace the entire human race.
Your outrage might
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 10:36pm.
be better expressed to Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Idiot.
I think I'm suffering from "Stewart Fatigue"
Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 1:27am.
I think I'm suffering from "Stewart Fatigue". I think I'll ignore all posts about Jon Stewart for awhile. He's over exposed, over analyzed, and his influence is exaggerated by both supporters and detractors. I talk casually to a lot of different people in the course of the day at work and not once has anyone ever cited anything he has said or something that was on his show. This tells me something. I leave it to others to talk about this smug, self satisfied jerk.
Very solid points about the issue at hand
Submitted by hayate1 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 2:06am.
Didn't Stewart point out the fact that a Fox exec had been caught , by virtue of a publicly released email, giving marching orders to the 'newscasters' as to what they can and cannot say? Stewart pointed out that fact as part of his position that Fox is conveying propaganda and opinion as news which is misleading and results in a misinformed audience? then when that key point was edited out he called them out on it. How is that liberal? Pointing to facts to buttress an argument is liberal?
"Facts are not decided by how many people believe them. Truth is not determined by how loudly it is shouted."
Ignore the hater troll.
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 2:35am.
Ignore the MediaMatters dupe spewing hate troll.
That isn't something that
Submitted by classicliberal2 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 2:53am.
That isn't something that only happened once at Fox. The Fox execs have, since 2001, circulated a daily memo giving the Fox employees their propaganda talking-points for the day. Many have been leaked over the years. Stewart mentioned once circulated by Bill Sammon who runs Fox's Washington Bureau. That was, indeed, edited out of Stewart's comments by Fox, thus helping make Stewart's point.
And many other organs
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:32am.
circulate "editorial standards" as well. Cite an egregious memo. Ann Coulter reflects that as a counter to MSM being 90% liberal, Fox's staff is about 70% liberal. Ailes is probably trying to control the slide to MSM-style liberalism.
Clueless... and linkless as usual.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:49am.
Since we're on the subject, here's a few fun linkies for you:
Collusion.
Collusion.
Collusion.
And, the left stream
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 10:32pm.
media gets theirs from the White House. What's your point.