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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 09:32 AM Oct 2016

Fox's Chris Wallace 'Disappointed' That Ailes Joined Trump Campaign

Chris Wallace, the host of "Fox News Sunday" and moderator of the final presidential debate on Wednesday, was not exactly thrilled when Roger Ailes, the former Fox News executive who resigned this year amid sexual harassment allegations, joined Donald Trump's campaign.

“I’m disappointed in Roger going to work for the Trump campaign,” Wallace told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published Thursday. “We have had to fight back for a lot of years against claims that we’re an arm of the Republican Party. We aren’t. Anybody who watches me on ‘Fox News Sunday’ knows that I’m not. I think it has given people who don’t like Fox News in the first place something to talk about. It allows people to say, ‘I told you so,’ when it’s not really true.”

Wallace told the LA Times that he has not spoken to Ailes since he was ousted from the network.

"I haven’t talked to him since he left, and I won’t talk to him," he said.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chris-wallace-disappointed-ailes-trump

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Fox's Chris Wallace 'Disappointed' That Ailes Joined Trump Campaign (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2016 OP
Does he not watch his own channel? get the red out Oct 2016 #1
Well Chris lied about not being a Republican arm. JRLeft Oct 2016 #3
LA Times: "Yeah, us, too!" Gidney N Cloyd Oct 2016 #4
He makes trump feel young again, they both long for the days of parades of subservient women Sunlei Oct 2016 #5
So he just delivers the soft ball talking point questions? randr Oct 2016 #6
"Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox" underpants Oct 2016 #7
He's as delusional as the rest of them. Happyhippychick Oct 2016 #8

underpants

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7. "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox"
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 10:45 AM
Oct 2016

David Frum
He got fired from AEI for saying that.

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