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Chris Wallace Whacks Liberal at Frost/Nixon Chat for Comparing Bush to Nixon
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Noel Sheppard said there’s more to the Frost/Nixon fallout with Ron Howard. Over at Foxnews.com, Jim Pinkerton blogged that Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace "threw a fair-and-balanced apple of discord" into the liberal Dubya-as-Nixon theorizing at a Monday night panel discussion after the movie was screened at the National Geographic Society. The Q&A was moderated by liberal historian Robert Dallek, and included director Ron Howard, screenwriter Peter Morgan, and James Reston Jr., son of the liberal New York Times columnist of the same name and a ...
Bush Being ‘Nixonized’ By Left?
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... that something had been done right. That’s why, he said, “we are all sitting here tonight so comfortably”—and not afraid of another terrorist attack. Moreover, Wallace said, “Richard Nixon’s crimes were committed solely for his own political gain, whereas George W. Bush was trying to protect the American people.” To suggest otherwise, Wallace insisted, “was a grave misrepresentation of history, then and now.” And, amazingly, Wallace received a smattering of applause.
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The “New” Richard Nixon Tapes: A Bad Reputation Deserved
The Moderate Voice —
... Being “like Nixon” has being the ultimate insult to hurl at a President (perhaps second is being “like Carter.”). Fox News’ Chris Wallace recently got a lot of publicity by challenging the effort to “Nixonize” President George Bush. The most notable continuing strand with Nixon tapes both new and old: a lot is about Nixon, how he perceived himself and wanted to be perceived, how his enemies were out to get him and about how he wanted to get back at his hated enemies. ...
Plastered President
The Wide Awake Cafe —
... face onto George W. Bush’s without benefit of any historical evidence.
At a recent screening of the film in Washington D.C. sponsored by the National Geographic Society Headquarters (who know something about tribal rituals) Ron Howard, Peter Morgan, James Reston Jr. and historian Robert Dallek were discussing the similarities of the presidencies of Nixon and Bush and were challenged by their notions by Fox News’ Chris Wallace who spoke truth to power…..
But then “FOX News Sunday” host ...
