For Chris Wallace Life at Fox News became unsustainable.

[Tomconroy]

By Michael M. Grynbaum
March 27, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET
“I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox.”

Chris Wallace uttered those words matter-of-factly, in between bites of a Sweetgreen salad at his new desk inside the Washington bureau of CNN, the network he joined in January after nearly two decades at Fox News.

For those on the left who admired him, and those on the right who doubted him, it’s a statement that was a long time coming.

A down-the-middle outlier at Fox News who often confounded conservatives by contradicting the network’s right-wing stars, Mr. Wallace was also one of the channel’s fiercest defenders, disappointing liberals who hoped he might denounce colleagues like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson.

But in December, Mr. Wallace, 74, issued a final verdict: He was done. In a surprise move, he declined to renew his contract as host of “Fox News Sunday” and jumped to archrival CNN. His daily interview show — “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” — starts Tuesday on the new CNN+ streaming service.

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[EYESORE 9001]

1. According to his own statement, he was 'comfortable' with their programming for helluva long time

The archives are loaded with his water-carrying for RW enemies of democracy. He is no hero of mine.

[agingdem]

7. Wallace was comfortable with

Trump insulting his profession (fake news), and he was alright with a depraved deviant, a sexual predator, a corrupt narcissistic sociopath in the White House...he was comfortable with Trump ignoring the pandemic and Trump's callous disregard for human life..and Wallace was down with Trump sidelining scientists and medical experts in favor of quacks and shamans and dispensing his own "medical advise" (ingesting bleach/injecting disinfectant)..and he didn't lose sleep over Trump's overt racism and ethnic hate ("good people on both sides"..Mike Wallace was Jewish) or babies in cages, separating families..but Tucker pissed him off?...what a fucking saint..not!

[House of Roberts]

2. As far back as when George Will was still on Fox News Sunday,

which was the only reason I watched it, I could see him getting more and more uncomfortable with the answers of his guests. After Will left, I stopped watching it. They started having Karl Rove on too much.

[Butterflylady]

3. Where was he when the former was lying his ass off?

Was he comfortable with that? He should left along time ago.

[agingdem]

6. I think his supposed discomfort came

the night of the cringe-worthy debate...Trump, an unhinged covid infected bloviating lunatic, spewing insults and slurs at a calm and rational Biden...the consensus was Wallace did poorly, having lost control of the debate, but the consensus was wrong...Wallace's inability to reign in Trump was a godsend...Trump, corralled, no reporters screaming inane questions, no helicopter roaring in the background..instead, substantive questions demanding answers, one-on-one with Biden, his enemy..and Trump, clearly out of his comfort zone, unable to answer, resorted to personal attacks and self-aggrandizing...without realizing it Wallace "let Trump be Trump" and it was devastating...

[uponit7771]

8. +1,

[Boomerproud]

4. I.Don't.Care.

😐🖕

[KG]

5. excuse me, but piss on chris wallace anyway