Faux News, already in rare form......

[marmar]

from the LA Times:



Fox News' Chris Wallace: Is Obama even president?
11:18 AM PT, Jan 20 2009


"Well, again, we're wondering here whether or not Barack Obama in fact is the president of the United States," Chris Wallace told Fox News viewers, well over an hour after Obama had taken the oath of office today.

Fox News replayed the swearing-in moment when President Obama and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. each bobbled the words to the constitutional oath. "They had a kind of garbled oath," Wallace said.

"It's just conceivable that this will end up going to the courts," Wallace speculated.

A bit of wishful thinking on behalf of (presumably conservative) Fox viewers?

Perhaps. But Wallace quickly added: "As Brit Hume rightly pointed out, if it goes to the Supreme Court, certainly Chief Justice Roberts will say that he took the oath."

— Scott Collins


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/01/fox-news-chris.html

[spanone]

1. faux comedy news never fails to deliver the laughs....bwahahahahaa

[MadMaddie]

2. Yawn...they are idiots!

[anonymous171]

3. Obama was elected. The electoral college cast their votes already.

[originalpckelly]

7. But he's not a legal citizen.

:rofl:

You have to be a citizen to be Pres, now doncha?

[originalpckelly]

4. Of course we know they'll grasp at anything to bring him down.

At least he doesn't seem like the type to fool around, so we don't have to worry about that.

[Coexist]

5. Obama was President at noon, with or without an "Oath of Office". Read a book assholes.

[tekisui]

10. Exactly.

The oath is not the determining factor. Let them waste their money on lawsuits.

[Coexist]

13. catering to their uninformed masses.

its a joke.

[Harry Monroe]

14. Better yet, read the Constitution of the United States

I'll bet they never glanced at a word of it.

[Coexist]

22. is that a 'historical document' to them?

[Wickerman]

6. As my not overtly political wife just pointed out, the oath is fairly academic

At noon Obama became President.

[Lex]

8. mind-bendingly stupid

nt

[Geoff R. Casavant]

9. My God, they never give up, do they?

It's really quite simple -- the Constitution specifies the form of the oath, but does not say it must be done in public, or that it must be administered by the Chief Justice, or even that it must be witnessed. I would not be surprised if, right after leaving the dais, the President just raised his hand again, said the oath properly, and made it all nice and Constitutionally correct.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. And... so it begins

[Redstone]

12. Desperation, much? PATHETIC desperation, much? They're truly delusional.

Redstone

[Wiley50]

15. Delusional. n/t

[Harry Monroe]

16. Jesus, Wallace is such a dick!!

[Harry Monroe]

17. "Fox News' Chris Wallace: Is Obama even president?"

"News viewer (except those who watch Fox News): Is Wallace even a journalist?"

[lordsummerisle]

24. Good one! LOL n/t

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

18. we all knew faux would turn into rabid attack dawgs in a matter of

seconds after he became president, and in a way, I don't mind. It makes me sick, but the public is getting wise, progressives are organized and fighting back, and if Faux keeps it up, the dems will kick ass again in 2010, for an unprecedented third time in a row.

[shadowknows69]

19. If it were to go to the SC and Justice Roberts did ANYTHING but say it was valid

Then he'd better have a plane ticket to Paraguay and his passport up to date.

[Aristus]

20. Chris Wallace is a dick-less wonderboy, a psycho hose-beast and a no-talent assclown.

Just wanted to clear that up.

That is all...

[MasonJar]

21. It was easy to tell that Obama knew the oath by heart; it was Roberts

who goofed it up, which caused consternation.

[muntrv]

23. As of 12 noon, YEAH!

[Dukkha]

25. it's like watching "Wayne's World" public access basement news

except the Wayne's World sketches were funny. They're just sad.

[Sheets of Easter]

26. The fail is strong with Chris Wallace.

He will NEVER be even 1/4 of the journalist his father was/still is.

[Marr]

27. Oh hey-- cool idea. So all a political party needs to do to secure eternal power is

have one of their own in the Chief Justice's spot. He can just refuse to issue the oath to the president and the party rules forever. Brilliant. I wonder why I never thought of that before?

I assume it's because I'm not a complete imbecile.

[riverdale]

28. Taking the absurdity up a notch for no particular reason

Since there is nothing in the Constitution about throwing God into the oath of office, couldn't Fox News say that NO president of the US has ever been legitimate since George Washington (unclear if he added a god into things)? If they do a freelance oath of office, it doesn't count, right?