Chris Wallace Enjoys A Good E-Mail Reading
During his weekly gabfest with Fox News Sunday's secretly hilarious host Chris Wallace, Imus learned that Wallace is a fan of Taylor Swift, and of Dagen McDowell's performance skills.
"A lot of us knew Dagen McDowell for years at Fox News as a serious, distinguished reporter, a lovely young woman," said Wallace. "And you have turned her into Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' reading those salacious e-mails. What the hell happens when people get around you?"
Referring to Dagen having read, seductively, some of the exchanges between Tiger Woods and his mistress, Imus had no excuses. "It seemed like a good idea at the time," he confessed.
What also might have seemed like a good idea to President Obama was flying to Copenhagen "leaving a Sasquatch-like carbon footprint," as Imus said, to attend the global warming summit. Sarah Palin wrote a predictably anti-climate change op-ed in The Washington Post, pressing Obama to boycott the talks.
"She's got something that I don't think anybody else in the Republican field of potential candidates has: people like her," said Wallace, adding, "Any politician that can excite that kind of support and even devotion, you've got to take seriously."
Which is something many, if not all Democrats, are loathe to do. "I'm still convinced she's a dope," said Imus, who receives vicious, off-the-record e-mails from Sean Hannity every time he says that. Wallace then suggested Dagen take a stab at those e-mails, too.
"I can't quote them," Imus said, disturbed by Wallace's affection for Dagen's "talent."
Wallace interviewed General David Petraeus last week, and Imus wondered if he was the kind of guest who "rolls their eyes" off the air, and then "gives you the line."
"General Petraeus has got a chest full of medals," said Wallace. "I don't think he's going to do that."
Imus and Wallace paused for a moment to listen to President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, which Wallace observed was appropriately humble and modest. "You can accept it, but you also make it clear that you probably don't deserve it," he said.
On Fox News Sunday this week, Wallace will host a regular environmental roundtable with the anti-global warming Senator Jim Inhofe squaring off against climate change supporter Congressman Ed Markey.
But Imus was way too distracted to comment on Wallace's lineup. "I'm watching Bernard shoveling food into his mouth like a snow shovel," he said. "And it's actually making me ill."
-Julie Kanfer
Chris Wallace 
Reader Comments (1)
Tell the I-Man there is no place to send him or who ever reads his mail. Would you tell hiim I also could not find any way to send him my 5 favorate songs.
Here we go
1. Lyle Lovett "I will rise up"
This should be his new theme song because it is about his whole life
2. Rose Anne Cash Motherless Child
3. Blame Sally Seveland
4. Shaun Colvin Stay Up Straight
5. Imus's most favorate Rolling Stone Song
PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG
You are the best at dealing with BS .....
It is too cool to hear you "GO Off"