Chris Wallace Loves the I-Man, But He Loves Someone Else More
Chris Wallace prepared for this morning’s interview with Imus as he does every Thursday, by watching a bit of the program to gauge what exactly he’ll be up against.
“I’ve watched the last ten minutes of this show with horror,” said Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday. “You’re in a horrible mood and you’re bringing everybody down.”
Imus protested that it was, um, Charles, or Bernard, or Lou who placed him in said bad mood because they beat on him. Luckily, Wallace had a plan to turn things around by engaging Imus in a discussion about the normally benign topic of American Idol. But as with most conversations between these two, it quickly turned ugly.
“The girls are better than the guys this year,” Wallace said.
No, Imus demurred, they’re not; well, maybe the first girl was okay, he allowed, but she’s missing some teeth.
“Not to mention the piercing in the lip,” said Wallace, who watched the program with his daughter last night and told her, “If you ever do that, don’t come home.”
“What do you care what your daughter does?” Imus asked, at which point Wallace, Charles, Bernard, and scores of listeners excoriated him for such a callous remark.
Asked how he would feel if Wyatt walked through the door with a nose ring, Imus said, “There wouldn’t be too much I could do about it.” Yeah, right.
This coming Sunday, Wallace will interview former Massachusetts Governor and 2008 Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, whom he called the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican nomination.
“He walks into a room, and he just kind of takes the oxygen out,” Wallace pined. “He’s an extraordinarily good-looking man, and he’s a very charismatic guy, and you think, wow, this guy’s really something.”
Sounding more like someone about to rent a motel room by the hour than an accomplished journalist, Wallace added that despite his magnetism, Romney had a difficult time connecting with voters two years ago.
“It will be interesting to see whether, because time has passed and he has maintained these views and this persona, people are going to trust him in a way I’m not sure they quite did in 2008,” said Wallace.
And for the record, (or because Imus pressed him), Wallace confessed to a bit of a “bro-mance” between him and Romney. Gross.
-Julie Kanfer
Chris Wallace 
Reader Comments (1)
Many years ago,Mike Wallace came to our small border town in Canada to do a show on smuggling for 60 minutes...I felt like God had arrived.
Flash forward to last year and Chris Wallace is holding up a book on how to get your affairs in order before you die
and the Fair not Balanced man calls it a "Death Book"
Forget about Chris throwing his daughter out if she came home with a nose ring....His dad should have kicked his butt a little more
to the LEFT
thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
doug