Speaking out for the first time since ditching Fox News after nearly two decades, Chris Wallace said it had become “increasingly unsustainable” for him to remain with the conservative cable news giant as the network’s stars were unleashed to push out election denialism and Jan. 6 trutherism.
In an extensive interview with the New York Times that was published Sunday, the 74-year-old venerable newsman also confirmed earlier reports that he complained to Fox News management about Tucker Carlson’s docu-series Patriot Purge, which baselessly suggested that the Capitol riots were a “false flag” operation to justify a new “war on terror” against conservatives.
“I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox,” Wallace told the Times.
“I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” he added. “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable. I spent a lot of 2021 looking to see if there was a different place for me to do my job.”
Wallace, who shocked the media world last December when he suddenly ditched Fox News to host a daily interview show for rival CNN’s new streaming service, bemoaned the hard-right shift at Fox News following former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.
Notably, this included expanding the network’s opinion programming, firing its longtime political editor who defended the network’s early and accurate election night projection of Arizona, and the increased prominence of Carlson. Prior to the election, Wallace had loyally defended Fox News to its detractors for years while refusing to publicly condemn its more strident opinion hosts by name, even as he famously pushed back against their rhetoric on the air.
“Before, I found it was an environment in which I could do my job and feel good about my involvement at Fox,” Wallace noted. “And since November of 2020, that just became unsustainable, increasingly unsustainable as time went on.”
At the same time, the former Fox News Sunday moderator acknowledged that critics would say that it took him too long to finally call it quits.
“Some people might have drawn the line earlier, or at a different point,” he declared. “I think Fox has changed over the course of the last year and a half. But I can certainly understand where somebody would say, ‘Gee, you were a slow learner, Chris.’”
As for the Kremin-friendly rhetoric pushed by Carlson and other Fox News personalities since the launch of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Wallace—who said he “wanted to get out of politics” when he quit his Sunday show—wasn’t in the mood to pick any new fights.
“One of the reasons that I left Fox was because I wanted to put all of that behind me,” he stated, adding that “there has not been a moment when I have second-guessed myself about that decision.”
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Original Article: Chris Wallace Says Working at Fox News Became ‘Increasingly Unsustainable’ (thedailybeast.com)
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wallace is a perfect fit for cnn and a blessing ridded by FOX!
If you had did your job before election it might be possible we would not be in the situation Biden has got in now so don’t complain about programing since you refused to show or tell how Biden was do dirty.
Actually he was and is useless ,like Rivera!
TOO MANY ENEMIES on Fox for you wallace…..
He no longer matters. What is he trying to do, give interviews while trying to stay relevant? Well, if that’s the case, who cares, I never watched anything he was on, to begin with, I won’t in the future either.
Chris Wallace is Demo Demon in Sheep’s Clothing. His a Habitual Liar , Con Artists , FRAUD , Back Stabber , Radical Racist , Card Carrying Race Baited and a BIG !! Lol !
He looks just like what he is, a little liberal twit! These pseudo-intellectual weenies are so full of themselves because everything is handed to them as long as they promote the Godless, Satan worshiping, power-mad NWO-elitist ghouls agenda! Way past time that they need their A$$ES kicked!
Sounds to me like he is the only one that has a conscious and wants truth put out there. Wasn’t happening at Fox and still isn’t. They would have to backtrack so much they would look pretty stupid in the public’s eye. That is those who have a conscious.
Funny thing…. if this election nightmare scenario had played out AGAINST the democrats, Wallace would have been more outspoken than ANYONE at FOX EVER WAS.
And he would have been hailed a hero by his cnn, msnbc, abc, cbs, nbc, npr, washpo, nytimes and every other American newspaper colleagues.
Another one of those that we care nothing what he says goodbye I personally turned you off when you came on just like several of the other ones on Fox. If you cannot report the truth go to CNN or MSNBC Most people watching Fox News especially Tucker, Hannity and Ingraham is doing so to hear the truth, NOT FAKE NEWS
Chris Wallace sealed his fate when he silenced our President Trump during what was suppose to be a debate between Trump and Biden. It turned out to be the Chris Wallace run show where he refused to let the PRESIDENT talk. Why was this little man given the right to shut the President up. That little trick is going to change the way we deal with debates during a presidential election. Wallace lied to protect Biden, and for that he showed this country that he is biased and does not belong anywhere near a debate stage again, or trying to act like he is a journalist.
Many of We Patriots remember those horrible debates with Chris Wallace at the “Hellman”! His obvious support of the misfit
“JRB” now “Dim Witted” Liar in person doing misdeeds daily so named President. JRB is no more our country leader, then that so named former actor comedian of Eukraine!
Live skits happening in front of our Eyes daily! I can hardly wait to read the list of credits at the end of this “Showtime News” sans Chris Wallace 1 of the main “Showmen”! So be it! To be continued!
Good Riddance to the liberal Sorry ASS !