Chris Wallace: ‘I Never Dreamt It Would Go Off The Tracks The Way It Did’

For him to say he didn’t know trump would act in such a way is laughable. I don’t buy that excuse. Doesn’t matter anyway, Trump interrupted and bellowed for ninety minutes, and Wallace didn’t shut it down. He was the moderator.

Off the rails.

Like a train wreck.

Yep. That’s Trump in a nutshell.

He saw Trump as clear as the rest of us for the last four years. For him not to expect this level of trouble going is nothing short of willful blindness.

And he noted that cutting off the audio feed of a presidential candidate is a more consequential act than some pundits give it credit for. “People have to remember, and too many people forget, both of these candidates have the support of tens of millions of Americans,” he said.

I coulbn’t disagree more….both parties agreed to two minutes uninterrupted for responses and Trump flagrantly broke the agreed to terms. Football teams don’t get a 5th down because they are “America’s Team”.

I think Wallace, like many of us knew it would be really bad but he’s had his back & forth interviews with Trump multiple times and has gotten him settled down in the past to produce something that could be edited into a coherent presentation. Lord only knows what the outtakes look like! Still, I think Wallace naively believed he could cajole Trump to some degree, since he is after all Fox’s dean of actual news people and given he’s been slightly critical of Trump at times if the Murdochs wanted him gone he’d be gone. And Trump knows it.

Wallace is I think the only person in his position who could have slapped Trump down hard enough to keep that whole thing from being the mess it was. He’s in his 70s himself and has all the money and professional accolades a person in his job could want. Not as much as his dad but then he’s the one who chose to work for Fox instead of another network that would turn him fully loose. Anyway, he doesn’t need his job. Because of that, once he realized the whole 90 minutes was going to be like that first couple of segments he SHOULD have put his foot down along the following lines:

“Mr. President – YOU and your campaign agreed to the format and rules well before tonight and you keep breaking them. Far more so than the former Vice President. If you continue to refuse to abide by the rules YOU agreed to I will pull the plug on this whole thing. I don’t care if the Commission on Presidential Debates never lets me moderate one again. I don’t care if it costs me my job at Fox. I DO care about this process and you are defiling it and embarrassing our entire nation in front of the entire world. I will simply not be part of such a thing and if I have to I’ll knock over the TV cameras to cut off this travesty you are creating. If you don’t like it and want to leave, then do so and if the Vice President wants to remain I will question him without you. It’s YOUR choice sir. Follow the rules you agreed to and allow ME to moderate this debate or it’s over.”

Even if he got fired by Fox he would be honored in his profession beyond all the honors bestowed on his father. I personally think Trump would have tried to behave for a while and when threatened again (inevitably) by Wallace he would have stormed off the stage. And Wallace should have kept the sound going so that the audience could hear Trump screaming and cussing at his aides pleading with him to get back out there!

The next moderator could try that, but as I said Wallace is a cornerstone of Fox – their only well known actual journalist with at least some measure of willingness to be an actual journalist and be critical of Republicans.

My wife made the comment to me last night that Wallace looked like he supported Biden. I felt that way, too to a point. Some of the questions were framed in a FOX sort of way, but otherwise I feel he gave the Traitor enough rope to hang himself not just once, but two or three times.

The end of Trump.
By
Miranda Allison Young
(Copyright 2020)

He stands at the edge of the swamp which he swore that he would drain. But he did not do it, and now he will greatly regret it. He falls, face first, and begins flailing around in that deep, stinking swamp water as he slowly sinks further and further down to the bottom where the sucking evil things live which will slowly take his life. He gropes around in that nauseatingly putrid, fetid, foul, rancid water, trying to find something to grab onto so he can climb out, but it is useless. There is nothing but the slippery edges of the swamp and his hands slide off. Slowly, slowly, they take him. Piece by piece, tiny bite after tiny bite they take out of him with their extremely sharp teeth. Nibble by nibble, slowly, and more slowly they chew on his obese, flabby body. Now, he is feeling pain like no one else has ever known. Excruciating pain. Stabbing pain, that crawls down his spinal column and into his genitals. Squirmy things, these creatures are, and ugly like no ugliness has ever been known. Down in the incredible darkness he now is, where he cannot see what is crawling across all the nerve endings in his body, but he can feel each one of them. He tries frantically to move away from them, but it is useless. They will not let him. They are heavier than anything he has ever known, pressing him down against the squishy surface of the bottom of the swamp. He gasps, trying to breathe, but the squirmy things slide into his mouth, slithering down his throat, into his stomach, and all the way to the bottom and out. He can feel every wiggle that they make. Slowly, slowly, slowly, now from both inside and outside, they take him, bit by bit, until he is gone. gone. gone. The swamp is now empty of life. Even the squirmy things have disappeared, and the swamp cleans itself, having fulfilled its duty, and is a beautiful lake.

The smart thing to do for any possible future debates is to have a warning system. Three strikes and the debate is terminated. Period. Then DO IT!

It was dark last night. I had no phucking idea the sun would come up.