Fox News host Chris Wallace got in a heated exchange with contributor Trey Gowdy over today’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
The acrimonious exchange promptly followed Wallace asking Gowdy if the GOP’s behavior in the case of pushing Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation versus blocking Merrick Garland’s nomination in 2016 was purely political.
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Chris Wallace and Trey Gowdy again went back and forth, but when they start talking over each other, Bill Hemmer (usually a very calm, sober guy) interjects to note that they’re squabbling over things that have already happened while Biden has been dodging on court-packing pic.twitter.com/lKDedfW0e3
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 12, 2020
Mediaite’s Charlie Nash reports:
During Fox News’ coverage of Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Wallace asked Gowdy, “Is it civics that the Republicans blocked the Merrick Garland nomination 269 days before the election and they’re pushing this one through now 22 days, or is it pure politics?”
Gowdy replied, “It’s pure, raw politics. But also what is pure, raw politics is the one Republican who’s actually done what most of us want to see, which is treat Supreme Court justices fairly, is Lindsey Graham who voted for Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, and the reward for that is a historic level of money pouring in to try to kick him out of the Senate.”
Wallace then interjected, stating that while he appreciated Gowdy’s foreright response, the record also showed that Sen. Graham had flip-flopped on Supreme Court nominations in presidential election years.
“Having said that, it was Lindsey Graham who in 2018 or 2019 at a forum said, ‘Look, if there is a nomination in the final year after the primaries start in 2020 for Donald Trump I will not bring it up before my committee,’ and he even said, ‘Mark the tape and hold me to account on that,’” Wallace continued. “So he has flipped entirely.”
Gowdy returned fire with a pithy observation, “And so has every Democrat…”
The two men began talking over each other until Fox News Chief Anchor Bill Hemmer inserted himself, declaratively saying, “Gentleman. Wait a minute here. We are debating history, okay? From four years ago.”
Hemmer continued:
“Today in 2020, you’ve got a leading candidate in Joe Biden who has been asked repeatedly over the past several weeks whether or not he would pack the court if he won, and he’s yet to even provide an answer, and we are still waiting on that day after day,” Hemmer concluded. “So that’s where we are in 2020.”
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Persona non grata
Chris wallace belongs on cnn
Or MSNBC
Or any liberal biased mainstream media, where Chris Wallace will be right at home with everything they put out that proves to be “Fake News”.
Chris Wallace is in no way shape or form a journalist!! HE IS A TWO FACED LYING P O S WHO REALLY SHOULD NOT BE ON TELEVISION AT ALL!!!
Or The People’s Daily!
or retired.
Or in a Communist China Gulag
CNN is the place for Chris Wallace ! Why is he always on the debates anyway ?
He is a joke just Costa.
Because this is the tactic of the demonRATs, they run all the platforms, making them the most powerful entity on earth. They demonize all that is good and praise all that is bad, as they spoon feed over and over again what they want you to know and believe. They know that if they say it over and over again and loud enough we all will believe every lie they spew out of their hate filled mouths. They hate America, they want YOU to hate America, to hate God, and to hate each other so “we the people” will hate each other so we will destroy ourselves and our country for them so they can usher in their new world order communist muslim utopia. They are drunk with absolute power and absolute control over us and our paychecks. Their green new deal wants 70% to 90% of our paychecks, and when they get their power back, we will lose everything we hold dear. Just try paying your mortgage, your car payments, or even buying a steak once in a while on 30% of your salary. You will be paying healthcare for the world, because they will give it to anyone who crosses our border. Stand in line, because OUR citizens will be at the end of the line, and pray to God you never get sick because the wait could be months and months. The only people who will be getting good healthcare are the demonRAT politicians that WE THE PEOPLE pay for them.
I think i read this some where THE GOOD WILL BECOME BAD AND THE BAD WILL BECOME THE GOOD AND THAT IS HERE NOW,
Isaiah told us about 2700 years ago that the Lord said it would happen and it has.
TOTALLY AGREE!! OR AT LEAST VERY VERY VERY CLOSE TO THE…ehemm…DOCUMENT/RECORDINGS/CHRONICLES OF OLD!!
Well said !! But the illegals will have better and free care that Americans citizens will pay for!!
As like the rest of the people like the Blacks, the dems will only use the illegals until after the election. Then the poor illegals will be left to rot in cardboard boxes like the citizens of LA and Frisco. They are just being used to get the Presidents chair after that they will all as will us too be left to die.
I think you are wonderfully correct however, getting the Biden supporters to take enough time to absorb these accurate comments is blowing my mind! Obviously they want to believe nothing positive and I do not want to live in a society such as Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba or any other place where I do nothing except be a minion for someone else.
It’s a democrat thing
I realize there are few “conservative” journalists and we’ve yet to see a conservative moderate a presidential debate.
CNN will fade away and FOX will take it’s place.
I think thats wishful thinking.. CNN has a HUGE audience overseas and can withstand strong resistance from USA audiences.
Let them move overseas, then. I’m good with it.
huge audience only because they have a monopoly at airports world-wide
There are millions of dipshitz that will always watch CNN or MSNBC. Why is mental health such a BIG issue in health care with the Dems? Because they are totally aware of how many millions of effen nut jobs supporters they have that need their heads examined on a regular and continuous basis and eat up the propaganda promoted by CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC and ABC.
Time to start looking for another news source. Fox is falling out of favor, as they add on democrats to the staff.
Go to One America News and Newsmax. Usually just a few channels lower from Fox
No he needs to be FIRED and expelled from any news organization.
I’ve been saying this for two decades
I agree
YES
You are so right
Wallace needed to go several years ago, but must have something on the leadership at FOX.
Wallace is dragging down FOX to CNN standards, and my one of the idiots in management is doing anything?
Therefore, FOX is short lived and that’s exactly what the LEFT wants.
go ahead dummy he will lunch on your stupidity libturd ass dummy !!!
why is wallace still around
Chris Wallace stopped being a journalist years ago, and has become nothing but an shill for the Democrat Party..he isn’t unbiased, and he can’t even be honest about how biased he is.
Another Heraldo (Jerry Springer)
Wallace has always been a Left Wing hack. Its just showing more.
Chris Wallace also conducted the 1st debate by focusing on what voters already knew about each candidate, rather than trying to glean info about each one that was revealing. His entire approach to each candidate was totally different…softball questions for Biden, and wasting POTUS’S 2 minutes with a question he already knew DJT had answered numerous times. THAT’S not moderating, that’s undisguised bias. Fox can defend him all they want…he’s a hack.
This country is F. U. C. _.E.D.
Prepare for a bloody civil war. All the rest is just foreplay
Wallace should hand in his FOX I. D. card for a CN.N. card
Trey will mentally and verbally slice and dice Wallace better than a Vegematic.
Pedo Joe is not answering that question because he is starting to realize that he won’t be the one in the White House. If the Democraps manage to block ACB’s appointment then they will be able to cheat the Pedo Joe and His Ho ticket into a win. Nutsy is already working on the bill that will allow him to be declared unfit so the Ho will be the one who actually gets sworn in. She has already said she is all for Court packing and may other things she LIED about in the Debate.
The picture is so clear now!
Stacy McCain over at American Spectator Monday stripped the mask off Chris Wallace with rapier’s edge incisiveness. A MUST READ!
Chris Wallace challenging Trey Gowdy is like the pissant challenging the anteater.
Chris Wallace has written an excellent book on the atomic bombing of Japan to stop World War II. But he is a horrible newsperson … he wants to appear objective, but clearly he doesn’t like Trump. He should leave Fox and write more books!
Typical WALLACE cut people off so he can get his point in. One day he will learn to shut his mouth and let the person answer his question. Same old HACK DEM operative. He is one of the reasons FOX Rating are heading South. He should have been fired after the debate.
Fire Chris Wallace
Why does FOX keep Chris Wallace? All he does is parrot the Democratic lies. When I see his program coming on FOX channel, i change the station.
Why are my comments being removed from this site?
Chex, we all should know why?
Wallace isn’t fair and objective even though he likes to pretend he is. No one is buying that Chris.
I stopped watching Weasel Wallace years ago! He is the epitome of slime!
There are 2 main differences between 2016 with Obama’s nomination and 2020 with President Trump’s nomination:
1.) ACB respects the Constitution and does not legislate from the bench, any judiciary who legislates from the bench is not worthy of SCOTUS!
2.) Former President Obama was in his final days and was not eligible for re-election. President Trump can still be re-elected and in my opinion will be re-elected b/c the American people can be lazy at times but they are not totally stupid and blind to the lies and the socialism being pandered to us by the media and the Democratic Party.
Come on Man ! Doesn’t anyone pay attention to what’s taking place over at Fox news where Soros dollars has begin to influence some of it’s cast. You just need to wake up to what going on on. Just do a little research and see who’s on the take.
Cris Wallace doesn’t belong on this station. I turn him off when he talks. He’s not honest
It’s fine what Chris does to Republicans ,he just needs to be as critical and go get them attitude when he has Democrats on he show .He repeatedly lets Democrats off the hook ,I think because they won’t come on his show if he did have that same go get them attitude against the Dems .
wallace is a waste of space
Fox News’ “fair & balanced” mantra has worn thin. Fox is now politically centered. They have ruined their station with all of the dimwit lefties they now employ. Murdock’s boys have taken the joy out of watching Fox. They may as well be referred to as MSNBC lite.
Chris Wallace brings up just one Republican who has flipped on what he said back in 2016 about confirming a SCOTUS appointment in a Presidential election year, Lindsey Graham, yet ignores that every single Democrat in the US Senate has also flipped on what they said in 2016 concerning confirming a SCOTUS appointment during a Presidential election year.
This is just more proof of Chris Wallace’s conservative Republican bias, that he has been pushing ever since he started working for FOX News, and probably even many years before that.
Why has Chris Wallace not asked even one Democrat why they have flipped on what they said in 2016 about a SCOTUS appointment during a Presidential election year?
Garland nomination wasn’t brought up during the end of Obama’s term because you had a Democrat president and a Republican Congress and to my knowledge that had never happened. Today, we have a Rep Pres and Rep Congress so proceed with Barrett’s confirmation. You have to have 9 judges on the bench IAW the law.
CW is a spokesman for DNC. Fair and balanced, NOT. A sniveling weasel.
Don’t let Wallace commentate, he won’t let people answer the questions. He only wants to inject his own comments.
I don’t see anywhere in the confirmation process that an approval from fake news liar Wallace is required
Chris Wallace is highly overrated, especially by himself. Trey Gowdy is a man of high intelligence and integrity. I wish Fox would fire Wallace. I agree, he belongs on CNN and should never again be allowed to moderate a Presidential debate.
Chris Wallace is a biased, liberal, loud mouth, scum!
It’s not just Chris Wallace ,others on Fox News have taken handouts from Soros .My major source for new is now NewsMax.
wallace missed his chance with TASS and PRAVDA, so he’s trying to recreate them in his own mindless rantings.
The President has done HIS JOB!
The Senate is doing ITS JOB!
what’s the problem?
Can’t stand Chris Wallace. Will NOT watch him or listen to him.
Wallace is a weak quivering-voiced a-hole.
As a journalist Chris Wallace is second rate and a partisan disgrace. A journalist should be impartial Observer when moderating a debate. He was anything but that.
Ya know? I hadn’t relized it until I began paying Greater attention to things in the last 8-10 years. Chris Wallace is a Dem/Communist Propagandist JUST LIKE HIS FATHER Michael Wallace! Yup!
Mike Wallace assisted in Covering up and Redirecting on 60 Minutes the Death/MURDER of Vince Foster in the Park. This was a HILLARY CL:INTON ARKANCIDE HIT JOB along with the Clintons Other 140 + Arkancidings dripped out over the past 5 years!
Also we should NEVER Forget that Hillary Waxed out, or attempted to doing so, JonJon JFK JR!! Why? She was at battles to win a Senate seat that Jon was sure to win. Mind you that Same Year there was an Uptick of California Fires eerily similiar to what we saw in 2016 and in 2020!!
*******PATTERNS AND SEQUENCES BECOME QUITE CLEAR AFTER A WHILE THRU THE ABSURD REPITITIONS!!*******
GREAT QUESTION and very easy to see when following the money and the Games of the “TECHNOCRATS” and CRONY CAPITALIST CABA’ALIST ELITISTS (shwabb nwo talks davos, bilderburg etc.. No One asks why there are not ANY Republican Moderators EVER…ANYWHERE!!
I hadn’t REALIZED IT until I began paying Greater attention to things in the last 8-10 years. Chris Wallace is a Dem/Communist Propagandist JUST LIKE HIS FATHER Michael Wallace! Yup!
Mike Wallace assisted in Covering up and Redirecting on 60 Minutes the Death/MURDER of Vince Foster in the Park. This was a HILLARY CL:INTON ARKANCIDE HIT JOB along with the Clintons Other 140 + Arkancidings dripped out over the past 5 years!
Also we should NEVER Forget that Hillary Waxed out, or attempted to doing so, JonJon JFK JR!! Why? She was at battles to win a Senate seat (1997)(to hell with the deceptive Snopes)That JonJon JFK jr was sure to winin a landslide. Mind you that Same Year there was an “Uptick of California Fires” eerily similiar to what we saw in 2016 and in 2020!!
*******PATTERNS AND SEQUENCES BECOME QUITE CLEAR AFTER A WHILE THRU THE ABSURD REPITITIONS!!*******
Chris Wallace is no match for Trey Gowdy, because Chris Wallace seeks negativity in those areas that he feels biased in and Trey Gowdy ,having more experience than most in cases like those that exist now between Democrats and Republicans only seeks the TRUTH not conjecture without evidence
Chris Wallace will never “Fill” Mike Wallace’s Shoes, and he couldn’t even “Shine Them”
Wallace should be careful what he wishes for. Trey Gowdy might just hand him his A..
Lindsey Graham admitted, and I fully agree with him, that after Justice Kavanaugh’s unfair treatment, Graham has had a change of heart! Republican’s Used to let themselves be walked all over and finally some of our representatives have said enough is enough.
Chris Wallace is crazy to argue with Trey Gowdy. Trey is without a doubt one of the smartest people in the country. When he speaks, one pays attention to what he says. Chris is such a joke. In the first debate I was trying to figure out if it was Biden or Wallace running against Trump. Fox is not doing the American people any favors by keeping Wallace on its payroll. He lost all credibility a long time ago.
thanks to Obama for the mess confusion that the government of the United State is in.
Chris Wallace has “Flipped”.
I’m now at the point that I refuse to watch any show that Wallace is on. Also, same with Juan Williams, jessica Tarlov, Donna Brazile and even Cavuto.
I lean to One America News and Newsmax as Fox slowly gets turned from fair and balanced to liberal mind set.
CHRIS , read your CONSTITUTION, or Bidens rule. If a party owns both SENATE and the Presidency ,they have the right to nominate a candidate to the Supreme court before elections.