April 30, 2021
Wow! Ben Domenech humiliates Chris Wallace on air for his Biden speech puffery
With a potential plum like that a possibility, Domenech deserves a lot of credit for responding to Chris Wallace’s praise for Biden’s speech the way he did. I don’t know why FNC regards Wallace so highly, but he does host Fox News Sunday and virtually always serves as a commentator after major political events. Somebody up there (on the executive floors of FNC) likes him.
While I agree with Domenech, I find the criticism of Wallace here disproportionate to what he actually said.
Wallace simply said that the speech would be popular because it promised much, all to be paid for by others. This is nothing more than the standard D position, and it's simply a fact that the position *is* popular; there are millions of people throughout the country who want to be provided more and more by Uncle Sam, always to be paid for by others.
Wallace also hypothesized that the Biden admin calculates that COVID has caused many people to see the Fed Gov as a benevolent provider (my words, not his, but I think faithful to what he said) so is taking advantage of that calculation. That hypothesis might be proven correct or incorrect, but there is nothing wrong in suggesting it.
At least in the clip shown, Wallace did not hail the speech as particularly effective or historic, he merely said it would be popular. That should not be controversial. The legitimate criticism of Wallace here is for analysis so anodyne as to be meaningless. While he didn't criticize the speech, neither did Wallace endorse it; he basically said nothing.
Domenech actually *said something.*
