Chris Wallace is the son of the famous 60 Minutes journalist Mike Wallace from CBS News, but Chris Wallace doesn’t work for CBS News; he works for Fox News. He hosts the Fox network’s Fox News Sunday (which Fox News is quick to point out is on the Fox network, and not on Fox News {even though they rerun it on Fox News a couple of hours after it originally runs on the Fox network} to show that it doesn’t have all of the right-wing spin and blatant inaccuracies of the regular Fox News programming, which they are always at great pains to avoid having to admit to, and generally try to outright deny, although obviously never convincingly.), and he sometimes subs in for other anchors like Sean Hannity and Bret Baier whenever they’re off on vacation or counting their money and throwing it all up in the air and letting it rain down on them like in the old cartoons or whatever. So I have to wonder, how does something like this happen? After all, the late Tim Russert from NBC News’s Meet the Press has a son named Luke Russert who works for, that’s right: Fox News. Actually, I’m kidding; of course Luke Russert works for NBC News like his father did. But what prompted Chris Wallace to go work for Fox News when his father is one of the great luminaries of CBS News? Did he grow up watching his father on 60 Minutes and decide that his father’s presentation was a biased and unfair telling of only one side of a more complex story with the intention of discrediting or indicting a company for ideological purposes, get sick of it and decide to go work for an organization that might try to tell the other side of that story? Or was he just a punk rebelling against his father, essentially saying: “Up yours with your liberal crap, Dad! I’m going to go work for Fox News just to get back at you for not buying me that Corvette!” Or did CBS News simply decide that Chris Wallace looks too much like a nerdy Muppet with too nasaly of a voice to have any gravitas and so refuse to hire him, at which point Chris decided to get back at them by going to work at Fox News where he could try to take away CBS’s market share and then spend lots of time on the air bragging about how huge Fox News’s ratings are while complaining endlessly about CBS News’s liberal bias? I’m just curious. And remember how everyone on all sides used to say that Tim Russert was the perfect unbiased journalist? I do, and I’ll bet he was a great father too (unlike Mike Wallace, who was probably always producing segments to make his son look like a stupid ungrateful punk and showing them to his wife so he could avoid having to buy his son that Corvette he wanted to impress all the girls at school with)! That’s probably why Luke Russert decided to follow in his father’s footsteps rather than rebel and go join his father’s adversaries like Chris Wallace did. But I don’t know why. I guess the more important question is this: why is Chris Wallace trying to hide all of this stuff from us? Maybe we should get Mike Wallace to go under cover and get us some answers in a segment for 60 Minutes. That way he could get revenge for his son betraying him to the enemy.
