Chris Wallace and Imus Argue A Lot

Chris Wallace didn't mind waiting almost ten minutes to speak to the I-Man today.

"It was almost worth it, because there was a moment when you were talking to Charles and Bernard and you said, 'I am not a jerk,'" said Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday. "Which ranks right up there with Richard Nixon saying, 'I am not a crook.'"

Since Imus had no reply for this clever insult, he asked Wallace about the "big jobs fair" at the White House today, which led to further ridicule.

"It's a jobs summit," Wallace clarified. "It's not like there are going to be booths there!"

Having kicked Imus when he was already down, Wallace admitted he had no idea why President Obama was holding a jobs summit today. The CEOs from companies like FedEx, Google, and Boeing will be there, but it remained unclear what they'd discuss.

"The recession is what it is, and the stimulus is doing what it's doing," said Wallace. "So I'm not sure, given these huge deficits that we've got, what they can accomplish."

He believes this summit is Obama's way of empathizing. "When George H.W. Bush ran for reelection and people thought he was out of touch, in his wonderfully candid way he said, 'Message to New Hampshire: I care,'" said Wallace. "This is, to some degree, Barack Obama saying, 'Message to unemployed people: I care.'"

Imus suggested that Wallace simple call Bush 41 "the good Bush," which Wallace did not find funny. So, how about that Afghanistan speech the other night?

"The administration really cannot get its story straight," said Wallace, referring to whether or not a July 2011 drawdown of troops would be conditional or not. Defense Secretary Gates said it would be, while the White House said it was a date certain.

"That part is politics," said Wallace. The President, he explained, is simply trying to please his anti-war base.

Imus and Wallace then engaged in a heated debate about the Middle East, with Imus arguing for immediate withdrawal in Afghanistan. He laid out his own intelligent plan: kill everyone there and come home when they're all dead.

"The preceding comments were solely those of the Don Imus show," said Wallace.

Things became even more contentious when the two argued over whether or not Imus was jerk, which culminated with the statement, "Next thing you'll be doing on your Sunday morning show is hiding behind a curtain, like your dad did."

At which point Wallace smartly rested his case.

-Julie Kanfer